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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... Chapter 3 and my critique offered in Chapter 4 of " race- blindness " as a moral ideal would never have come to fruition without the constant encouragement and periodic provocations of this extraordinary group of scholars . I am also ...
... Chapter 3— “ racial stigma , ” a sociological notion at some remove from my discipline of economics . Neverthe- less , as will soon become clear , the concept of racial stigma is central to my thinking . My approach is loosely modeled ...
... Chapter 3 for the force of my criticism to stand . One need only impute to him an unwillingness to explore ( 1 ) as fully as it deserves to be explored , an unwillingness he may feel because he believes ( 2 ) . So a way to translate my ...