This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor southern rednecks were regarded by northern emp...This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor southern rednecks were regarded by northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral.