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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... idea would be what the sociologist Orlando Patterson has called the principle of infrangibility ( that is , the absence of boundary ) —saying that we are One Nation , Indivisible , and taking that idea seriously enough to try to act ...
... idea of discrimination points mainly to reward bias , telling us little that is useful about the practice of racial pref- erence in associative behavior . The stigma idea is more flexible , providing insight both into race - constrained ...
... idea with what I have called race - indifference — a disregard for the effects of a policy choice on the welfare of persons in different racial groups . By pointing to a history of racial sub- ordination and the evident importance of ...