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Intellectuals and race / Thomas Sowell.

by Sowell, Thomas, 1930-

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Basic Books, 2013.

Racism -- Political aspects -- United States.

Intellectuals -- United States.

Blacks -- Social conditions.

9780465058723 (hc.)

vii, 184 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Questions about race -- Disparities and their causes -- Changing racial beliefs -- Internal responses to disparities -- Race and intelligence -- Liberalism and multiculturalism -- Race and cosmic justice -- The past and the future.

The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American experience in a wholly new light. The views of individual intellectuals have spanned the spectrum, but the views of intellectuals as a whole have tended to cluster. Indeed, these views have clustered at one end of the spectrum in the early twentieth century and then clustered at the opposite end of the spectrum in the late twentieth century. Moreover, these radically different views of race in these two eras were held by intellectuals whose views on other issues were very similar in both eras. The impact of intellectuals' ideas and crusades on the larger society, both past and present, is the ultimate concern. These ideas and crusades have ranged widely from racial theories of intelligence to eugenics to "social justice" and multiculturalism. In addition to in-depth examinations of these and other issues, Intellectuals and Race explores the incentives, the visions and the rationales that drive intellectuals at the highest levels to conclusions that have often turned out to be counterproductive and even disastrous, not only for particular racial or ethnic groups, but for societies as a whole.

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