Race & Culture
Ethnic America
A History
by Thomas Sowell · 1981
The book that put Sowell on the map. How nine ethnic groups actually rose in America, and what the record says about why.
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This is where it started. Before the columns, before the fame, Sowell sat down and looked at how Irish, Italian, Jewish, Black, and other Americans actually fared, generation by generation. No theories, just history. If you want to understand his whole project, start at the beginning.
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