Black Rednecks and White Liberals

This book may be more helpful now, and add more clarity and perspective, than when it was written.

It’s not often that a reader opens a work of non-fiction and the words written on the first page has such an impact that it smacks the reader so hard the reader has to rub his/her cheek to soothe the blow. This is the impact I felt with Black Rednecks and White Liberals. The first page drew me in and......more

Fantastic approach to race and discrimination. I enjoyed his research about the roots of "redneck culture" originating in Scotland and other fringe areas of the Brittish Empire. I thought the views on "middle-men minorities" and "segregated schools" were especially insightful. He approaches every to......more

Dense. Thorough. Balanced. Eye-opening. Magnificent.......more

Wow, what an achievement. Though a more accurate title might have been "Essays in Ethnology", "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" consists of six amazing essays, which collectively constitute the best book I've ever read. Every page presents startling, important, and little known facts that are appa......more

This book is a collection of a few long essays from Sowell, an economist of some fame, and of special value to conservatives because he is an African-American conservative intellectual. I’ll be discussing only the first, titular, essay in this book, because it’s the one I was most interested in. I t......more