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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... race - blindness ” —the conviction that racial identity should play no part in the way people are treated in public life , that we should be " blind " to race . The other view I will call " race- egalitarianism ” —the conviction that ...
... race - blindness and race - egalitarianism . Among the most important conclusions emerging from The Shape of the River is that , though not mutually inconsistent , these two ideals are in tension with each other : It is often the case ...
... Race : axioms about , 4-7 ; as cognitive classification , 17–20 , 58 ; defined , 20-23 , 205n1 , 206n4 ; and ... Race - blindness , 7 , 112-113 , 116-117 , 123-124 , 126–127 , 132-142 , 145 , 147–154 , 166–169 , 212n10 Race - egalitarianism ...