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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... AXIOMS As a starting point for the analysis I adopt three postulates , or axioms , about “ race ” and inequality in the United States . I use the term " axiom " here in the mathematical sense : an assumption embraced for the sake of ...
... Axiom 1 ( Constructivism ) : “ Race " is a socially constructed mode of human categorization . That people use marks on the bodies of others to divide the field of human subjects into the subgroups we call " races " is a social ...
... Axiom 3 , which pos- tulated an ingrained racial stigma adversely affecting blacks . Of the three axioms that I have offered , this one is likely to be the most controversial . Invoking the specter of slavery in a discussion of ...