The Economics and Politics of Race
The Economics and Politics of Race is a study of racism in America and throughout the world and how it challenges liberal views on prejudice, affirmative action, and segregation. Using an international framework, Sowell analyzes how much a racial group’s economic fate is determined by the surrounding society and how much by internal patterns that follow that same group around the world. This book argues and proves that discrimination is not a cause of economic poverty.
Thomas Sowell found out that the social and economic patterns among Italians in Australia and Argentina are similar in many respects to those of Italians in Italy or the United States.
His study also suggested that though blacks have not faced the same massive and rigid oppression in Brazil as in the United States, economic differences between blacks and whites are significantly greater in Brazil.
Table of Contents
The Role of Race
The Overseas Chinese
European Immigrants
Blacks and Coloreds
An International Perspective
The American Experience
The Third World
The Past and the Future