![]() Sowell also examines the cultural achievements of such ""middleman minorities"" as Jews and expatriate Chinese whose frequent persecution, he feels, represents an animus against capitalism. ![]() White liberals, gangsta-rap aficionados and others who lionize its ghetto remnants as an authentic black identity, Sowell contends, have their history wrong and help perpetuate cultural pathologies that hold blacks back. The title essay posits a ""black redneck"" culture inherited from the white redneck culture of the South and characterized by violent machismo, shiftlessness and disdain for schooling. Hoover Institution Fellow Sowell, author of Ethnic America, argues that ""internal"" cultural habits of industriousness, thriftiness, family solidarity and reverence for education often play a greater role in the success of ethnic minorities than do civil-rights laws or majority prejudices. One of America's foremost black conservative intellectuals returns with this provocative collection of contrarian essays. ![]()
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