Black Conservatives
Discover essential books by Black conservative authors, including Thomas Sowell, John McWhorter, and Jesse Lee Peterson. Explore titles on politics, social science, and culture that challenge conventional narratives—from *The Vision of the Anointed* and *Losing the Race* to *Scam*. Your curated reading list on Black conservative thought starts here.
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Scam
by Jesse Lee Peterson
In this timely and relevant book, an outspoken civil rights critic takes on black leaders, challenges the welfare system, and offers solutions for overcoming poverty and powerlessness in the nation.
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Losing the Race
by John McWhorter
Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch, McWhorter represents an original and provocative point of view. With Losing the Race, a bold new voice rises among black intellectuals.
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The Vision of the Anointed
by Thomas Sowell
Sowell presents a devastating critique of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years. Sowell sees what has happened during that time not as a series of isolated mistakes but as a logical consequence of a tainted vision whose defects have led to crises in education, crime, and family dynamics, and to other social pathologies. In this book, he describes how elites—the anointed—have replaced facts and rational thinking with rhetorical assertions, thereby altering the course of our social policy.
