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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... interaction ( the employer's surmise about his work- ers and the workers ' decisions about skill acquisition are ... interact with one another on matters of consequence under conditions of limited information.8 It becomes " rational ...
... interact in subtle and complex ways . ) An indi- vidual's experience of the social environment is strongly influenced by ... interactions he observes . His ethnography is a wonderful illustration ( indeed , a vindication ) of the theoret ...
... interactions that I have employed in this book to analyze the problem of racial inequality involve an observer and a subject being observed . ( This can , in one important and interesting case , be understood reflexively , such that the ...