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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... specific : an entrenched if inchoate presumption of inferiority , of moral inadequacy , of unfitness for intimacy , of intellectual incapac- ity , harbored by observing agents when they regard the race- marked subjects . Axiom 3 asserts ...
... specific reasons , namely slavery and enforced racial segregation over several centuries . These reasons involved the caste - like subordi- nation of blacks — a phenomenon whose effects still linger , and one that was certainly not ...
... specific intent of integrat- ing the national community by rubbing out in the conscious- ness of the populace a perception of racial difference in inherent capacities or deserved social standing . Would that be a valid enterprise ? Such ...