Is Race and Culture (1992) CHUD or WOKE?
chudrank score: 28 / 100 (CHUD-leaning (right-wing)). 0 is CHUD (right-wing), 100 is WOKE (left-wing).
Book by Thomas Sowell, 1992.
22 votes: 27% WOKE, 73% CHUD.
Why: Sowell on culture and race, skeptical of group politics
This seminal book by one of our leading thinkers on race issues will forever change our views on race and ethnicity, culture, and the explosive policy issues that revolve around them, not only in contemporary America but in societies around the world and down through history. Race and Culture brings together more than a decade of research, encompassing dozens of ethnic groups in scores of countries around the world, to challenge most of the fundamental assumptions underlying the whole spectrum of "social science" beliefs and government policies dealing with racial and ethnic minorities. Its thesis is that differences in productive skills and cultural values are the key to understanding the…