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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... dishonored persons . In the experience of the United States , slavery was a thoroughly racial institution . Therefore , the ... dishonor of the former slaves and THE ANATOMY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY their descendants , historically engendered 69.
... dishonor . By " racial dishonor " I mean something specific : an entrenched if inchoate presumption of inferiority , of moral inadequacy , of unfitness for intimacy , of intellectual incapac- ity , harbored by observing agents when they ...
... dishonor " in early twentieth - century America . Few power- ful people at the time desired to see millions of black Ameri- cans — their fellow citizens - moving out of the South , to the RACIAL STIGMA great northern cities . In the ...