Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell

Category: Adults, Bestsellers, Misc. Non-fiction, Political
Language: English
Keywords: BLM Business Culture Economics Libertarian Politics Racism Sowell

Written by Thomas Sowell
Read by Hugh Mann
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 56 Kbps
Unabridged

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. This pattern was repeated by blacks with whom they shared a subculture in the South. Over the last half century poor whites and most blacks have moved up in class and affluence, but the ghetto remains filled with black rednecks.

Their attempt to escape, Sowell shows, is hampered by their white liberal friends who turn dysfunctional black redneck culture into a sacrosanct symbol of racial identity.

In addition to Black Rednecks and White Liberals, the book takes on subjects ranging from Are Jews Generic? to The Real History of Slavery.