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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... historical context . " Race , " on my account , is all about embodied social signifi- cation . As such , much depends on the processes through which powerful meanings come to be associated with partic- ular bodily marks . Obviously ...
... HISTORICAL CAUSATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE I have been invoking history as a factor conditioning the eth- ical assessment of contemporary social arrangements . And yet the explicit channels of historical influence , on which social ...
... historical violation . Thus I argue that , even though quantitative attri- bution of causal weight to distant historical events may not be possible , one can still support qualitative claims . Indeed , a sharp contrast can be drawn ...