Intellectuals and Race by Thomas Sowell

A typically excellent book by Sowell on the history of intellectuals and race. An interesting point he makes is that today's progressives - who blame the state of the black community purely on environment - are the heirs of the earlier progressives of the first decades of the 20th century, who blamed it entirely on genes, and so advocated eugenics. Sowell shows that its neither genes nor environment that is truly crucial here, but culture.