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In this episode, we discuss Thomas Sowell's 2018 book Discrimination and Disparities.

In particular, we focus on only one chapter of the book, Chapter 3, called "Sorting and Unsorting People."

You can read Chapter 3 HERE.

If you'd like to read a summary of the whole book, click HERE.

We discuss the following subjects:
• Educational sorting of people
• Sorting people by neighborhood
• Self sorting vs sorting by third parties
• Sorting into ethnic enclaves
• Sorting within the black community
• The special case of Dunbar High School
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Unsorting schools and neighborhoods
• Alan's personal reflections on the subject of sorting people
• The "rub off effect"

The show ends with an audio clip from the 2004 film "Crash", you can watch the video clip HERE.

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