Ethnic America: A History

by Thomas Sowell

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786723157
Publisher:	Basic Books
Publication date:	08/01/2008
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	836,768
Lexile:	1710L (what's this?)
File size:	635 KB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

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

David Herbert Donald

…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

Diane Ravitch