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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... possible and locking them up for as long as possible . Regime 2 looks to the buying side of the transaction , but with the same inten- sity , leading to the same rate of incarceration of people caught in retail drug buys . Suppose that ...
... possible , one can still support qualitative claims . Indeed , a sharp contrast can be drawn between two cat- egorically different responses to the problem of a morally problematic racial history . One seeks " reparations , ” con ...
... possible . The conservative scholars Stephan and Abigail Thern- strom , in their influential study America in Black and White , provide an example of this tendency of thought . They blame race - conscious public policies for what they ...