![]() ![]() ![]() Sowell traces this culture to several generations of mostly Scotsmen and northern Englishmen who migrated to many of the southern American colonies in the eighteenth century. The title essay, which opens the volume, shows that what passes for “black culture” in the United States, with its particular language, customs, behavioral characteristics, and attitudes toward work and leisure, is in fact a collection of traits adopted from earlier white southern culture. In his new collection of essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Sowell once again performs this task with great insight. And in doing so he has challenged and undermined many of the dominant ideological myths of our time. ![]() Over several decades he has applied his exceptional skills as an economist to an array of interdisciplinary studies focusing on race, culture, and politics. In a just world Thomas Sowell would win the Nobel Prize in economics. ![]()
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