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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.
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.
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals” is a collection of six long essays by Thomas Sowell, an economist and philosopher. Each essay is an examination of certain racial/ethnic groups as seen through the lens of economics.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education.
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 great detail.
Black Rednecks & White Liberals Kindle Edition. by Thomas Sowell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.8 4,471 ratings. See all formats and editions. This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education.
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...