Black Rednecks and White Liberals
出版时间
2005-06-25
ISBN
9781594030864
评分
★★★★★
书籍介绍
这本书最锋利的地方，不在于为黑人辩护，而在于把'文化'从'受害者叙事'里硬生生拽了出来。索维尔用邓巴高中教拉丁文、黑人精英社区的形成、民权法前后就业数据等案例反复追问：一个群体的处境，究竟多大程度上取决于外部歧视，多大程度上取决于内部文化？这个提问本身极具冒犯性，以至于连左派读者都感到'被颠覆'。它真正打动人的，是拒绝把'种族主义'当成万能解释——当历史被简化为偏见与反偏见，黑人前辈靠自身文化突围的努力就被抹去了，今天的人也就失去了可参照的榜样。它适合那些厌倦了道德站队、愿意承认'内部因素同样重要'的读者，尽管其论证的严密性仍有可争议之处。
AI导读
核心看点
- 挑战种族议题中的主流教条与刻板印象
- 剖析黑人文化与南方白人文化的渊源
- 以历史事实反驳单一偏见决定论
读者共识
- 逻辑严密，提供了颠覆性的新视角
- 部分读者认为存在确认偏误与逻辑漏洞
- 被誉为常识回归，极具启发意义
精彩摘录
- "throughout the 85 years of its academic success, Dunbar High School taught Latin. In some of the early years, it taught Greek as well. Its whole focus was on expanding the students' cultural horizons, not turning their minds inward. Still less was its focus on giving students as sense of victimhood "
- "The picture too often presented might lead one to believe that it was all just a matter of prejudice and bigotry in American society that lead to such signs in the first place, leaving their disappearance in later times unexplained, except by some such generality as “progress” or by the efforts of t"
- "The long social struggle that led to this result virtually disappears from history, as seen by those who make “prejudice” an all-purpose explanation. This not only deprives these and other minorities of credit for past improvements; more importantly, it deprives others today of a potentially valuabl"
- "In much of the literature on black culture, however, the supposed influence of slavery has been far more sweepingly assumed and the cultural influence of white Southerners and their forebears in Britain largely ignored."
- "Such concentrations of black pioneers and leaders in a few highly atypical cultural enclaves suggests that their achievements were not solely a matter of individual ability—“cream rising to the top”—but were also a result of a culture very unlike that in which most blacks were raised and educated. H"
- "The rise of blacks into professional and other high-level occupations was in fact greater in the years preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than in the years afterward, and was greater in the 1940s than in the 1950s. Behind such developments was the fact that blacks were closing the gap between th"
- "According to Andrew Hacker, the fact that white taxi drivers often pass up black males seeking a ride, especially at night, shows these drivers to be “patently racist”—even though black taxi drivers do the same, in order to avoid becoming victims of crime."
- "What blacks can do for themselves has not only been of lesser interest, much of what blacks have in fact already done for themselves has been overshadowed by liberal attempts to get them special dispensations—whether affirmative action, reparations for slavery, or other race-based benefits—even when"
用户评论
2013我读过最好的书。TS个人前三。
I discovered Thomas Sowell recently, recommended by Steve Pinker in his book The Blank Slate. Since then I've read several Sowell's books, including A Personal Odyssey and Basic Economics. His books are full of common sense, deep insights and memorable phrases. This one is no exception. Strongly recommend.
同意分析历史时也应重视内部因素而非仅仅外部因素，然而内部因素如人的意志力如何测量呢？证据的选择有明显偏向，论证存在比较多的逻辑漏洞，且论证的观点和论证有时候并不是一个东西
作为一个左派人士，读这本书还是觉得蛮颠覆的。
黑人的问题不是曾经当过奴隶，而是他们的文化有问题。
作者是libertarian阵营的大牛学者，中流砥柱，而且还是黑人。这可能是我第一次认真接触这一派的观点和著作，多少带点批判的眼光，听到最后却觉得哪怕不是被说服，起码也是非常欣赏和喜欢。和那种屁股决定脑袋的东西不同，本书虽然观点鲜明，但是论证严密，事实坚实，哪怕有些地方有以偏概全不够兼顾的缺点（其实哪本书不是这样呢？不然为啥我们还要多读书？），但总的来说有令人眼目一新的感觉，且有频频点赞的冲动。起码，它让我觉得诚实、独树一帜、不依照既有风气揉捏自己的观点和表达方式，在今天的学术界大概算是勇气过人——虽然以作者的地位，拿出这样的勇气恐怕要稍微容易一些。没有具体评论是因为还想再读一遍，再多想想，再写（很有可能就没有下文了……）。
当常识变成了颠覆，颠覆变成了常识
Some arguments don't stand up under scrutiny.
非常的common sense，有深度有见识，eye-opening。可能也是正好今年这样的环境，能读到这样的书，学习到了很多。
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