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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... practice of pro- black discrimination in contact . That is , as a political ( not a moral ) proposition , practicing discrimination in contact may be essential to ending discrimination in contract . Moreover , to reverse the effects of ...
... practice this discrimination in defense of their own humanity , there may be no reason to find it in the least bit ... practices to be found in the collective mobilization toolkit on which an historically oppressed , racially stigmatized ...
... practice of affirmative action , are being in- ducted into the leadership cadres of the United States ? Conversely , why is there so little alarm at the enormous racial disparity in the rates of imprisonment experienced by young ...