Books Quote by Jane Mayer

“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.”

— Erik Martin Willén

“The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which addressed the…

— J.D. Vance

I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long…

— Condoleezza Rice

“During the racial confrontations of the 1960s, An American Dilemma encountered rising criticism from activists and scholars who disputed Myrdal's optimism about white liberalism,…

— James T. Patterson

I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better, academically, than…

— Ann Coulter

“A brilliant black thinker, he grew up in South Carolina, where someone called the police when young Ron tried to check out a science…

— Leland Melvin

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one…

— Ben Fountain

“The black female mathematicians who walked into Langley in 1943 would find themselves at the intersection of these great transformations, their sharp minds and…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“I’m not arguing that we deserve more sympathy than other folks. This is not a story about why white people have more to complain…

— J.D. Vance

I think the O.J. Simpson trial was a revelation about the ongoing patterns of racial difference in American society.

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

“The argument is that Black History Month dwells too much on the downside of white America's relationship to its brothers of African heritage, slavery…

— Matt Taibbi

“researchers should realize that many people—not just whites—prefer segregation.”

— Jared Taylor