Black Rednecks and White Liberals

Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Hardcover edition
AuthorThomas Sowell
SubjectsAfrican American culture, Multiculturalism
PublisherEncounter Books
Publication date
June 25, 2005
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages360 pp.
ISBN978-1-59403-086-4
OCLC57579375

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans in the Antebellum South. The second essay, "Are Jews Generic?", discusses middleman minorities. The third essay, "The Real History of Slavery," discusses the timeline of abolition of slavery and serfdom. The last three essays discuss the history of Germany, African-American education, and a criticism of multiculturalism.