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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... ( Anti - Essentialism ) : The enduring and pronounced social disadvantage of African Americans is not the result of any purportedly unequal innate human capacities of the " races . " Rather , this disparity is a social artifact — a ...
Glenn C. Loury. THE ANATOMY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY hypothesis of anti - essentialism . ( Such a posture inhibits vicious circles of cumulative causation detrimental to the stigmatized group from ever getting started . ) The anti - ...
... anti - essentialism . My emphasis on the conventional and not natural character of race is accompanied by a con- viction that no deep - seated , inherent inequality of human potential as between the members of different racial groups ...