Ethnic America - Softcover

Sowell, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0465020755 ISBN 13: 9780465020751

Publisher: Basic Books, 1981

This classic work by the distinguished economist traces the history of nine American ethnic groups—the Irish, Germans, Jews, Italians, Chinese, African-Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans.

About the Author:

Thomas Sowell has taught economics at a number of colleges and universities, including Cornell, University of California Los Angeles, and Amherst. He has published both scholarly and popular articles and books on economics, and is currently a scholar in residence at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Review:

''[This] should be required reading for anyone interested in policy questions involving race and ethnicity . . . The book's extraordinary merit is its application of demographic and economic analysis to historical and social materials.'' --New Republic

''Ethnic America is 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 Book Review