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Black Rednecks and White Liberals Hardcover – June 1, 2005

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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.

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250 pages
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English
Publisher

Encounter Books
Publication date

June 1, 2005
Dimensions

6.54 x 1.25 x 9.22 inches
ISBN-10

1594030863
ISBN-13

978-1594030864
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One of America's foremost black conservative intellectuals returns with this provocative collection of contrarian essays. Hoover Institution Fellow Sowell, author of Ethnic America, argues that "internal" cultural habits of industriousness, thriftiness, family solidarity and reverence for education often play a greater role in the success of ethnic minorities than do civil-rights laws or majority prejudices. The title essay posits a "black redneck" culture inherited from the white redneck culture of the South and characterized by violent machismo, shiftlessness and disdain for schooling. White liberals, gangsta-rap aficionados and others who lionize its ghetto remnants as an authentic black identity, Sowell contends, have their history wrong and help perpetuate cultural pathologies that hold blacks back. Sowell also examines the cultural achievements of such "middleman minorities" as Jews and expatriate Chinese whose frequent persecution, he feels, represents an animus against capitalism. And he defends Western culture itself against charges that it was uniquely culpable for slavery; in fact, he contends, it was uniquely responsible for eradicating slavery. Many of Sowell's arguments-that the 20th-century resegregation of Northern cities was a response to the uncouthness of black rednecks migrating from the South, or that segregated black schools often succeeded by suppressing redneckism with civilized New England puritanism-will arouse controversy, but these vigorously argued essays present a stimulating challenge to the conventional wisdom.
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Thomas Sowell is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. Ive read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. -- Fred Barnes, executive editor, The Weekly Standard, and Fox News commentator

Tom Sowell is a national treasure, Americas most perceptive, productive, and thoughtful commentator on racial and ethnic issues. -- Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom, authors of America in Black and White

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (June 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594030863
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594030864
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.59 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.54 x 1.25 x 9.22 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #61,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5 in General Sociology of Race Relations
- #429 in Discrimination & Racism (Books)
- #738 in Ethnic Studies (Books)

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Joseph J. Hines

The Myths Come Tumbling Down

Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2017

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This is among the most interesting and enlightening books ever written. It is vintage Thomas Sowell- a thoroughly researched, broad sweep of history, economics and sociology and their impact on humanity. The writing style is accessible, interesting and engaging rather than bogged-down and dry like other books on similar subjects.
The greatness lies in debunking vast numbers of popular myths and misconceptions about differences and similarities between races, cultures, nationalities and their conduct. Most readers will be shocked to learn of the popular acceptance and practice of slavery worldwide and that Western culture lead the fight- literally- to end slavery. Europeans, Asians, Africans, South Americans, North Americans all engaged in slavery to an extent never discussed- at least not in America. Our sociologists, historians, politicians and others of low motivation would have us believe the institution was originated by and limited to the U.S. southland. Nothing could be further from the truth. Slavery continued in the Ottoman Empire for decades after the US Civil war and for generations in Africa, Asia, the Islamic culture and elsewhere despite vast military expenditures by European countries to stamp it out.
Dr. Sowell details dozens of additional examples of shocking, tragic relationships based on economic success, culture, work ethic differences and the effect of identity politics. Success of the Chinese, Lebanese, Albanians, Jewish and Tamil cultures among other populations resulted in discrimination, slaughter and exile of the successful by the less so, incited principally by political forces. A section describes anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany resulting from the same tactics of differentiating a culture among the larger population and inciting it to tragic discrimination. Indifference to Nazism by German communities outside Germany testifies to the potential of politics and politicians to corrupt populations.
This book dispels powerful myths and debunks the rhetoric of those who seek to divide the world with false history and science and an uninformed worldview.
If you want information and enlightenment, you will love this book.

Dr. Sowell's twenty-five years' of research coupled with the observations and research of others across centuries

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Monte Cristo

Sowell With the Goods

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2018

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The title essay forever changed how I look at race in this country, completely (and successfully) undermining all Left-wing narratives about race. Two words: founder effect.

Ta-Nehisi Coates isn’t fit to hold Sowell’s jock strap but the former (a flash in the pan imo) will garner more praise because he hates white people in all the ways that white liberals want to be hated by blacks. All the ways that appeal to the white liberal’s messianic desire for a self-abnegating way to help the Black Man.

Sowell, otoh, has devoted his entire adult life to demolishing victim narratives of the sort to which Coates is so addicted. This, of course, makes him an unperson to the Left (I’ve rarely if ever seen his books reviewed by liberals or liberal newspapers) because he deals with hard facts and explains the stats in a way that demonstrates how either side can manipulate them for its purposes. Consequently, this not only deprives the angry black person of that sweet, sweet victimhood narrative, but (and just as painfully) deprives the white (typically Jewish) liberal of the basis for their messianism. White liberals are not going to save black people, no matter how much they need to tikkun olam or make the world a better place; only blacks can fix their problems and it starts with changing the dysfunctional behaviors they adopted from their white redneck neighbors in the South (the subject of the title essay), ie violence, drunkenness, teen pregnancy, etc. If they don’t change those behaviors, nothing will help them, not even the mighty white liberal. The latter can only make their situation worse (and they have).

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Chuck Crane

How a southern redneck culture hurts both Whites and Blacks

Reviewed in the United States on October 8, 2017

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When I was in college at Ann Arbor, we referred to Ypsilanti, Michigan as "Ypsitucky" because it was largely populated by White immigrants from the south. I marveled at how those people hated the Black immigrants from the south, and how the Blacks hated them. But if you threw a sheet over them (which the Whites probably did to themselves with some regularity), you would not be able to tell them apart. They talked and behaved in the same way. They had the same touchy pride, contempt for learning, and feckless approach to life. They shared the same dysfunctional culture, in other words. The surpassingly odd thing is that people condemned the Whites who held this culture, while excusing it among the Blacks, to the detriment of the Blacks. And this is what Black Rednecks and White Liberals (the first essay in this collection) is about.

Sowell supports his case with sound reasoning from unimpeachable data. If anything is lacking, it is a clear idea of how, practically, to address the problem. But of course acknowledging the problem is the first step, and Sowell's essay will convince any discerning person to do so.

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Sunshine21

Warning!! Not for SNOW FLAKES!!

Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2018

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An amazing and bold set of essays speaking truth to so many of today's problems. Refudiating much of the dogma that exist and is perpetuated as absolute truth. For example, black redneck culture actually is actually from the highlands of Ireland. And is a culture of failure but it's held sacrosanct because it has been called "authentic" Black Culture. Therefore to speak against the uneducated ,uncouth ,rowdy ,risky, promiscuous and unambitious behavior is to be called a racist or Uncle Tom. That is just one example! Other chapters included : are Jews generic? the real history of slavery, Germany and history . black education and history vs visions. All excellent hard-hitting chapters. Logically and straight forwardly presented. An enjoyable and enlighting read. . Its a must-read for every thinking individual unafraid to confront truth and ideas contrary to the media and college elites. thank you Thomas Sowell. I have bought extra copies for gifts.

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Barry E. Sheridan

A necessary and important corrective to the misuse of history.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2020

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I consider myself lucky to have stumbled across the works of Thomas Sowell, this thanks to an interview that featured him on YouTube. Since then I have read two or three of his books, the last being this. As he notes, we are living today in an era of increasing racial division, sentiments that have hijacked historical events to foster guilt amongst white people while at the same time excusing those in the black community from confronting their own failings.

Central to this situation is slavery, which as Mr. Sowell explains with clarity is not just a trade conducted by white people, nor is one just affecting the United States. The truth is that slavery has been an integral part of human history, one involving all peoples of the world, indeed it was that combination of Christian roots and the Enlightenment that led white people to try to bring this trade to an end across the world during the 19th Century. Suppression of this fact has been used to imply that slavery in the United States was in some way more heinous that anywhere else, and because of this white people are the worst villains of history.

In a broad sweep this book does not limit itself to this aspect, but goes onto to issue correctives to the notion that blacks are somehow intellectually inferior. Noting as he does so that before the social programmes of the early 1960's began to undermine the progress black people had made in the US, there was evidence that when the effort was put in by good teaching, the intellectual gap to the average white in similar circumstance was closed.

If I had any influence I would make this book compulsory reading for all students and politicians, maybe that would counter the current drift away from the dreams of Martin Luther King and more towards the implementation of segregated barriers. Humanity is regressing.

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wesley

Outstanding documentation of African-American culture.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2019

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Fantastically documented history and references on misunderstandings of negro culture and misconceptions of the slave trade influencing getto behaviour and how mono cuddling white intellectuals have worsen the getto culture.

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Czechboy

A revelation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2018

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This series of essays has really opened my eyes as to how history can be used to claim victimhood, rather be used as a tool to move on.
All, what are now considered liberals, should read this and be red pilled, but of course they won't.

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bubsy

A book that helps generate clarity of thought!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2016

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Some books can change what you think and believe! This is a book that has changed the wiring in my brain and allowed me to make sense of things that were confusing and even illogical before it!
I am now less willing to let the identity politics games that people play pass by without comment and I will only admit to mistakes that I have personally made, not the mistakes of others or past generations!
Thank you Dr Sowell!

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stargazza

What harm can it do?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2018

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Everything that I had a niggling hunch about confirmed by Mr Sowell. Don't read it if you want to continue feeling morally superior.

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