On Sale: Mar 21, 1983
Page Count: 368 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN-13: 9780465020751

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

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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.

“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
“Just because it refutes, on almost every page, virtually every element of our received understanding of ethnicity in America, this is an important and gripping work. Here is evidence of a first-rate mind that has surveyed a seemingly familiar landscape and found not only new contours but patches of genuine and enduring wisdom.”
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“Perhaps the seminal history of America’s core populations.”
National Review
“Remarkable.”
Prospect (UK)

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Thomas Sowell

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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of dozens of books including Charter Schools and Their Enemies, winner of the 2021 Hayek Book Prize. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including the National Humanities Medal, presented by the President of the United States in 2003.

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