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Ethnic America: A History
by Thomas Sowell (Author)
Format: Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANRU64A/

The classic work on how different ethnic groups have economically, socially, and educationally adapted to American society

"At once useful as a concise history of major ethnic groups and significant as a quiet but powerful attack on liberal beliefs about minorities, racism, segregation, and affirmative action." —New York Times

A distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups—the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans—in order to explain their varied experiences in adapting to American society.

About the Author

Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications, on both sides of the Atlantic, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. After a career as an economist in the government, academia and the corporate world, he has since 1980 been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing, on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.
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Ethnic America: A History
by Thomas Sowell (Author)
Format: Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ANRU64A/

The classic work on how different ethnic groups have economically, socially, and educationally adapted to American society

"At once useful as a concise history of major ethnic groups and significant as a quiet but powerful attack on liberal beliefs about minorities, racism, segregation, and affirmative action." —New York Times

A distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups—the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, Japanese, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans—in order to explain their varied experiences in adapting to American society.

About the Author

Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. For more than half a century, his writings have appeared in both popular and scholarly publications, on both sides of the Atlantic, and his books have been translated into a dozen foreign languages. After a career as an economist in the government, academia and the corporate world, he has since 1980 been a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, devoting his efforts to research and writing, on subjects ranging from the history and influence of intellectuals to education and social policies in countries around the world.

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Aug 16, 2026 9:35 PM
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PurpleHaddock528Yesterday 1:31 PM
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Sowell is a very old school economist who left academia 40 years ago to write conservative pieces and convince others that systemic racism no longer exists. I don't believe he is a bad person, just very out dated. Nobody uses his work in the field of economics today and he has no experience in history at all.

The field of labor economics has moved away from grand sweeping generalizations and on to focused studies on specific outcomes for specific places at specific times.

I could write a lot about how Sowells work is useless today from cherry picking a single black segregational school that was created by segregationists to be compared against all other schools and much more.
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Quote from PurpleHaddock528 :
Sowell is a very old school economist who left academia 40 years ago to write conservative pieces and convince others that systemic racism no longer exists. I don't believe he is a bad person, just very out dated. Nobody uses his work in the field of economics today and he has no experience in history at all. The field of labor economics has moved away from grand sweeping generalizations and on to focused studies on specific outcomes for specific places at specific times. I could write a lot about how Sowells work is useless today from cherry picking a single black segregational school that was created by segregationists to be compared against all other schools and much more.
Sowells work has been largely useless as a whole.

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