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Title: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
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| Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books accurate to the extreme | Though the left will always look for gray areas, when you spend years accumulating historical FACTS like Sowell and his staff did here, it paints an accurate picture that's hardly debatable. Again, those who loathe this book did not read it. It's not an editorial but a true NEWS/history book, and not in the "news" or "history" sense you'd find in the NY Times or your local university indoctrination chamber. Too bad collegians are instead spoonfed books and films from Mikey Moore, al-Gore, John "the moron" Stewart and Cornell West, rather than one of America's most brilliant minds like Dr. Sowell.
The first chapter, which holds the book's title, is especially great and explains why and where our current societal issues come from. The "Real History of Slavery" is too real for America haters to read. As a Jew, the chapter on Jews is concise and true. Like most of the book, it's worth your time and will benefit your mindset. | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books Strong! Well written. | Dr. Sowell has an uncanny ability to get to the heart of a complex subject. If he teaches like he writes, his classes must be a joy to attend.
You get the impression that he reserves his greatest passion when he talks about the "soft bigotry" of low expectations perpetrated against black kids in America.
In short, Dr. Sowell is a powerful, intelligent voice on the scene today. We are lucky to have him! | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books Great book! | | Dr. Sowell is an amazing writer, and an even greater Economist. This book is filled with interesting facts that most people have never heard before. Please read this book, you will be the better for it! | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books Very Interesting | I have read three Sowell titles now and loved all of them, though there is some tendency to repeat the same theme. For instance in Conquest and Cultures he discussed slavery in his chapter about Africa, and again had a chapter devoted to slavery in this book. However, the chapter in BR&WL was much more thorough. I was especially interested in the chapter on Black Education because I myself am a high school teacher. It confirmed what many people have suggested, that in order to have success teaching children in poverty or "at risk" or whatever we are supposed to call them according to the politically correct police, one must have high expectations and require hard work. This makes perfect sense. If children in inner city schools are in fact behind those in suburban areas, how can they close the gap unless they work hard? Some might argue that it is not their fault and so it is not fair to make them work harder than children who's parents pay for tutoring etc. but the fact remains that they are behind and are not likely to catch up by any amount of praising or complaining.
Besides this chapter I felt that the chapter about "middleman minorities" was very interesting. Sowell made the case that there are many "Jews" in the sense that there are other examples of minorities who filled the role that Jews did in Europe and even the United States. He cited Chinese in Southeast Asia and Indonesia, Lebanese in northern Africa and Armenians in Turkey. All of these, he claimed and supported, are minority peoples who were often on the margins of the parent society, but that achieved success in spite of disadvantages they faced. It was a strong argument.
The main chapter and theme of course is that the "black" culture that we find in the United States today, and which is often celebrated by not only some blacks but often liberal elites, is not the result of culture brought from Africa, but rather culture brought from areas of England by white settlers. He argues that it is the "redneck" culture that has found its way into "black" culture originating from the south by osmosis. Sowell cites many examples of people from the North traveling South in the anti-bellum period, who noted the "redneck" culture and its characteristics. He quotes such scholars or W.E.B. Dubois who held negative views of the Southern blacks. This is a very interesting argument which, in my mind, is not so much an indictment of African Americans today, than it is of the South in general.
I would recommend this book for its original point of view and sound scholarship. That is, Sowell does not simply make up arguments or claim special insight, but supports everything he writes with a mountain of citations and quotes. It is well written and offers much to ponder.
The Sureshot | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books Great Book | | This was a great book! Sowell provides relevant examples and backs them up with facts. | | Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Encounter Books Product Description | | Challenges dogma and dispels cliches that have long clung to topics involving race, ethnicity and culture. |
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