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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... human categorization . That people use marks on the bodies of others to divide the field of human subjects into the subgroups we call " races " is a social convention for which no deeper justification in biological taxonomy is to be had ...
... human sub- population that are easy for observers accurately to assess and that can be misrepresented only with difficulty . Ob- servers , doing the best they can under trying circumstances , end up partitioning the field of human ...
... humanity . Only philosophers do that , and may God love them ! But the rest of us tend to ration the extent to which we will presume an equal human- ity of our fellows . One cannot necessarily count on getting the benefit of that ...