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Intellectuals and Race

von Thomas Sowell

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"Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence--all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole."--Jacket.… (mehr)
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This book is perhaps even more relevant a decade later than when it was written. Little has changed and a lot has gotten worse. Sowell gives a retrospective and (then) current update on the state of race ideas in (US) academia, and a lot of the pushback against him are not based so much in what he says as who he's aligned with, be it right wing politics in the US or Chicago school economics. The actual content of the book has a sprinkling of such ideas, in criticising government programs being counterproductive or focusing on the advancement of ethnic groups being tied to their economic liberty - but far more than that widening the US-centric race debate from a (literally) black and white perspective, to include what is probably familiar to anyone outside the US; the far more complex reality of the issue. Slavery is a bigger topic than the transatlantic slave trade, outcast groups have (also in the US) included many that are now integrated into the "white" group or just ignored (as often is the case with asian and SEA in the US that don't fit neatly into any narrative).

While society remains stunlocked and unable to move past the ideas of racial hierarchies and victimhood narratives that seem to have been more counterproductive than accomplishing anything, there is a dearth of voices that offer a different perspective. I eagerly await new ideas from Sowells critics that aren't just doubling down on more and wordier constructs defending the oppression olympics.

The biggest flaw of this book is not offering a concrete alternative, though arguably that is outside the scope it set out to do. You get a general sense of Sowell's biases for what would work and not work in his comparisons of groups that have done better and worse, and his focus on US black culture as a primary problem, but no real action plan for what to do about it. (Changing a culture is a lot more nebulous a problem than throwing more millions into some government program). Sowell has also pointed out a handful of the people behind the current narratives on race but doesn't delve deep into the alternatives. ( )
  A.Godhelm | Oct 20, 2023 |
Well researched, fact-based thinking, and clear writing. I highly recommend! ( )
  LSlabach | Jan 20, 2022 |
This is, perhaps, one of his better books. Or possibly I'm just biased because, since it has recent publishing date, it's style is also updated(complete with numbered footnotes! And we all know how I love those!). Some of the information is repeated but his specific target audience is different so that twists the angle a bit. *

If you're fond of Southern US history you either won't be or won't like this book after reading. Racism, as Sowell attests, is a alive and real. But not just in the ways we are accustomed to thinking of it.



*I was taught in grad school that you should always be part of a conversation. He does that well. ( )
  OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
A good, intellectually taxing read. ( )
  Renzomalo | May 18, 2021 |
Ahogy a korábbi Sowell kritikámban is írtam Thomas Sowell amerikai közgazdász, társadalomtudós, akit leginkább szerintem azért ismerhetünk, mert igen ritka, hogy valaki kritizálja pl. a kisebbségek pozitív diszkriminációját, miközben szegény sorban felnőtt afro-amerikai.

A bevezető könyv (The Thomas Sowell Reader) után úgy gondoltam, elolvasom egy könyvét ami egy konkrét témával foglalkozik, és mivel leginkább a rasszizmusról írt esszéi váltották ki a legtöbb kritikát, ezt választottam. Ez a könyv egyetlen témára összpontosít, így persze alaposabb elemzést kapunk, érdekes és elgondolkodtató amit ír, viszont elég hamar az volt az érzésem, hogy a könyv csak ismétli önmagát. Nem igazán éreztem, hogy ez a könyv sokat ad hozzá a korábbi könyvhöz. ( )
  asalamon | Mar 18, 2021 |
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"Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. Intellectuals and Race is not, however, a book about history, even though it has much historical evidence, as well as demographic, geographic, economic and statistical evidence--all of it directed toward testing the underlying assumptions about race that have prevailed at times among intellectuals in general, and especially intellectuals at the highest levels. Nor is this simply a theoretical exercise. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole."--Jacket.

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