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Black Rednecks
and
White Liberals
Thomas Sowell
Encounter Books
SAN FRANCISCO
Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Sowell
All rights reserved, Encounter Books, 665 Third Street, Suite 330,
San Francisco, California 94107-1951.
First edition published in 2005 by Encounter Books, an activity of
Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.
Encounter Books website address: www.encounterbooks.com
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sowell, Thomas.
Black rednecks and white liberals / Thomas Sowell.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-59403-127-4
Stereotype (Psychology). 2. Ethnic relations—History. 3. Race relations—
History. I. Title.
HM1096 .S683 2005
305.8’00973—dc22
2005041506
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
We do not live in the past, but the past in us.
— U. B. Phillips
Contents
Preface
ix
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
1
Are Jews Generic?
65
The Real History of Slavery
111
Germans and History
171
Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies
203
History versus Visions
247
Notes
293
Index
357
Preface
RACEANDRHETORICHAVEGONETOGETHERfor so long that it is
easy to forget that facts also matter—and these facts often
contradict many widely held beliefs. Fantasies and fallacies
about racial and ethnic issues have had a particularly painful and
deadly history, so exposing some of them is more than an academic
exercise. The history of intergroup strife has been written in blood
in many countries around the world and across centuries of human
history.
The purpose of this book is to expose some of the more bla-
tant misconceptions poisoning race relations in our time. The
reasons for these misconceptions range from simple, innocent igno-
rance to reasons that are far from simple and far from innocent.
Many of the facts cited here may be surprising or even startling to
some readers, but they are not literally unknown to scholars; they
have simply not been widely discussed in the media or even in aca-
demia. Too much has been assumed for too long and too little has
been scrutinized.
It may be optimistic merely to suggest that racial or ethnic
issues can be discussed rationally. Evidence to the contrary is all
too abundant in the strident and sweeping condemnations directed
against many who have tried to do so. Yet there is also evidence in
recent years of a growing willingness to consider views that differ
from the racial orthodoxy that has prevailed largely unchallenged
from the 1960s onw ............

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