BLACK AMERICANS
ELECTRONIC MEDIA
“The Blacks,” Ethnic America by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom (Kindle)
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John McWhorter (Kindle)
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era by Shelby Steele (Audiobook, Kindle)
Shame: How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country by Shelby Steele (Audiobook, Kindle)
Certain People: America’s Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham (Kindle)
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham (Kindle, Audio CD)
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul by Brian Kilmeade (Audiobook, Kindle)
Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream by Dinesh D’Souza (Audiobook, Kindle)
“The State Against Blacks,” by Jason Riley, at the Old Parkland Conference (speech)
“The Racial Achievement Gap and the War on Meritocracy,” Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2023, p. A15, by Jason L. Riley, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley (Audiobook, Kindle)
A Dream Deferred: The Second Betrayal of Black Freedom in America by Shelby Steele (Kindle)
“The Shock of Freedom and the Reinvention of Racism,” Ian Rowe and Shelby Steele, at the Old Parkland Conference (discussion)
“The Economics of Discrimination,” The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“‘Friends’ of Blacks,” The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Apartheid in Adoptions,” Is Reality Optional? by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
Frederick Douglass: From Slave to Statesman by The People Profiles (video)
“Booker T. Washington After One Hundred Years,” The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell (Audiobook, Kindle)
“Upward Mobility: Jesse Jackson Turned the Civil Rights Cause Into an Industry,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2023, p. A17, by Jason L. Riley, available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
“Uncovering Roots,” Village Voice, February 23, 1993, pp. 31–38, by Philip Nobile, available via the ProQuest Alt Presswatch database
“RE: The 1619 Project,” New York Times Magazine, December 29, 2019, p. 6, by Victoria Bynum, et al., available via the ABI/INFORM Global (ProQuest) database
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750–1860 by George Levesque (Kindle)
ESSAYS, ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
“The Blacks,” Ethnic America, pp. 183–224, by Thomas Sowell
“The Economics of Discrimination,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 87–97, by Thomas Sowell
“‘Friends’ of Blacks,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 257–258, by Thomas Sowell
“Black Rednecks and White Liberals,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pp. 1–63, by Thomas Sowell
“Black Education: Achievements, Myths and Tragedies,” Black Rednecks and White Liberals, pp. 203–245, by Thomas Sowell
“Apartheid in Adoptions,” Is Reality Optional? pp. 165–167, by Thomas Sowell
“The Racial Achievement Gap and the War on Meritocracy,” Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2023, p. A15, by Jason L. Riley
“Booker T. Washington After One Hundred Years,” The Thomas Sowell Reader, pp. 278–286, by Thomas Sowell
“Upward Mobility: Jesse Jackson Turned the Civil Rights Cause Into an Industry,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2023, p. A17, by Jason L. Riley
“Uncovering Roots,” Village Voice, February 23, 1993, pp. 31–38, by Philip Nobile
“RE: The 1619 Project,” New York Times Magazine, December 29, 2019, p. 6, by Victoria Bynum, et al.
“A Chronology of Emancipation,” Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, pp. 33–34, by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
“Afro-Americans,” Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, pp. 5–23, edited by Stephan Thernstrom, et al.
“Black Life in Eighteenth-Century Charleston,” Perspectives in American History, New Series, Vol. I (1984), pp. 187–232, by Philip D. Morgan
BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
America in Black and White by Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason L. Riley
Certain People: America’s Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham
Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham
Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880–1920 by Willard B. Gatewood
E. Franklin Frazier and Black Bourgeoisie edited by James E. Teele
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
When Harlem Was in Vogue by David Levering Lewis
Black Boston: African American Life and Culture in Urban America, 1750–1860 by George Levesque
The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul by Brian Kilmeade
My Grandfather’s Son by Clarence Thomas
Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America by John McWhorter
Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John McWhorter Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Buck
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750–1925 by Herbert G. Gutman