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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... person's physical presentation , and an identity constructed " from the inside , " via the accumulation of facts specific to a person's biography . The former is vir- tual , a social artifact , a construction that reflects whatever ...
... person's social iden- tity is “ spoiled ” in an essential way , and it can rightly be said that the person is " stigmatized . " Moreover , and crucially , this stigmatization is not merely the drawing of a negative surmise about ...
... persons on the basis of race in the execution of formal transactions — the buying and selling of goods and services , for instance , or interactions with organ- ized bureaucracies , public and private . Discrimination in contract , in ...