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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... assess the public morality of American social policy on this issue . So I will be addressing the question of “ racial justice . ” Again , my approach is theoretical and conceptual . I make an effort to specify the criteria that ought to ...
... assess that subject's functionally relevant but unobservable traits . Phys- ical traits matter because observers ( correctly ) expect them to matter . This expectation induces agents to interact with subjects in a manner that depends on ...
... assess.3 Neither their goals in life nor ( crucial for my purposes here ) their self- understandings as raced subjects come into being outside the flow of history and the web of culture . And so the diminished selves , the self ...