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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... social environment to which meanings about the identity , capabil- ity , and worthiness of their bearers have been imputed . I repeat : “ Race " is all about embodied social signification . In this sense , it is a social truth that race ...
... social information in a manner that exposes the error and leads him away ... meanings carried by the race - markers support the deleterious , homogeneous ... social meaning , of his stigmata . It behooves us , therefore , to inquire about ...
... social □ convention : Markings on the bodies of human beings— of no intrinsic significance in themselves become invested through time with reasonable expectations and powerful social meanings . Seeing race as a conventional , not a ...