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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Glenn C. Loury. INTRODUCTION racially stereotypic reasoning can in fact reflect modes of social cognition subtly biased against blacks , and I suggest that this kind of bias can serve to perpetuate and legitimate profound racial ...
... social condi- tions of ( some ) blacks persist , the negative social meanings ascribed to blackness are thereby reinforced , and so the racially biased social - cognitive processes are reproduced , completing the circle . As they ...
... social cognition , 43-47 ; " street wisdom , " 47-52 Racial stigma , 5-6 , 8-10 , 57-59 , 159–162 , 167–168 ; ingrained , 5–6 , 67-73 ; views of , 60-65 ; and social meaning , 65-67 ; illustrations , 73-91 ; beyond discrimination , 91 ...