Race, Culture, and Discrimination

Thomas Sowell is a very good storyteller. But The Economics and Politics of Race: An International Perspective is a poor book. It has the same strengths and weaknesses as the other three of his books I have read (Essays and Data on American Ethnic Groups, 1978; Markets and Minorities, 1981, and Ethnic America, 1981). They tell provocative and lively stories about minority immigrant groups and pull together an array of knowledge. They are well written, and p...