The outstanding features of this redneck culture, or “cracker” culture as it was called in Great Britain at that time, included “an aversion to work, proneness to violence, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, reckless searches for excitement, lively music and dance, and a style of religious oratory marked by rhetoric, unbridled emotions, and flamboyant imagery.” It also included “touchy pride, vanity, and boastful self-dramatization.”Īny commercial industriousness and innovation introduced in the southern states in the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, Sowell demonstrates, primarily came from businessmen, merchants, and educators who moved there from the northern and especially the New England states.
Sowell traces this culture to several generations of mostly Scotsmen and northern Englishmen who migrated to many of the southern American colonies in the eighteenth century. The title essay, which opens the volume, shows that what passes for “black culture” in the United States, with its particular language, customs, behavioral characteristics, and attitudes toward work and leisure, is in fact a collection of traits adopted from earlier white southern culture.
In his new collection of essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, Sowell once again performs this task with great insight. And in doing so he has challenged and undermined many of the dominant ideological myths of our time.
Over several decades he has applied his exceptional skills as an economist to an array of interdisciplinary studies focusing on race, culture, and politics. OL1935799W Page_number_confidence 95.88 Pages 390 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220606165615 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 433 Scandate 20220603013339 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781594031434 Tts_version 5.In a just world Thomas Sowell would win the Nobel Prize in economics.
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