

Intellectuals and Race
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/21/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, History & Theory
Author: Thomas Sowell
Narrator: Robertson Dean
Unabridged: 5 hr 43 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 05/21/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Political Science, History & Theory
Thomas Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, UCLA, Amherst, and other academic institutions, and his Basic Economics has been translated into six languages. He is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, at Stanford University. He has been published in both academic journals and such popular media as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fortune and writes a syndicated column that appears in newspapers across the country.
Intellectuals and Race is a refreshingly honest, but rare, discussion of race and the history of intellectuals and race in the western world. Sowell is a real thinker who has no use for the politically correct pabulum our culture is drenched in today. Sadly, far too many of our black youths who idol......more
October 2014 I did not find this well written, but very interesting. His thesis is that intellectuals in the 1900s blamed race differences simply on genetics (social Darwinism) and that modern intellectuals blame race differences simply on the racism of society. Neither of these are correct. This bo......more
"There is no subject that is more in need of dispassionate analysis, careful factual research and a fearless and honest discussion than is race. Ideally, we might look to intellectuals for such things. But it is also true that the mental skills and verbal dexterity of intellectuals can be used to ev......more
This is stellar work. Sowell argues that disparities in outcome are not evidence of racism or injustice. He further argues that there are geographical and demographic factors that work internally to produce disparities—an often ignored fact by the intellectual elites who like to look at everything e......more