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Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad.
In the back of my mind, I had always questioned quietly why we, as Black people picked up certain cultural tendencies. After reading the book, now I have clarity. History is never as neat as presented in some schools, there is always a different context to why such and such events happen. Thomas Sowell brilliantly brings this out in ...
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral.
Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted.
It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity--a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals is the latest salvo in Thomas Sowell's continuing crusade to represent allegedly dysfunctional value orientations and behavioral characteristics of African Americans as the principal reasons for
Over the last thirty years, Thomas Sowell has established himself as one of our most candid and insightful commentators on race and ethnicity. Black Rednecks and White Liberals is his masterwork....
