The Anatomy of Racial InequalitySpeaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn C. Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals—and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major statement of a position developed over the past decade, this book both epitomizes and explains Loury’s understanding of the depressed conditions of so much of black society today—and the origins, consequences, and implications for the future of these conditions. |
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... American society more clearly than does this tendency , found among academics and journalists alike , to equate a critical analysis of “ race ” and social equity with the advocacy of racial preferences . One need only visit a courthouse ...
... American society , one that is distinct from and ethically more disturbing than would be the challenge posed by a ... American experience , I believe this analysis offers insights that will prove useful for the broader study of racial ...
... Americans within a few miles of one another , in seas of despair , surrounded by the richest middle class on earth.6 This litany is not meant as an indictment of American society for being irredeemably racist . But it does illustrate ...