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by Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell's incisive critique of the intellectuals' destructive role in shaping ideas about race in America

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.

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  • Title Intellectuals and Race
  • Author Thomas Sowell
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Printing
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Publication date 2013-03-12
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780465058723 / 0465058728
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (23.62 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Sociological
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
  • Category Ethnic Issues
  • Library of Congress subjects Racism - Political aspects - United States, Intellectuals - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013930756
  • Dewey Decimal Code 320.569

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2013, Page 0

About the author

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of dozens of books including Charter Schools and Their Enemies, winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the National Humanities Medal, presented by the President of the United States in 2003.

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