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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... subjects , endeavor to discern relevant distinctions among subjects in that field in order to refine their actions , that those actions may better serve their ends . To make a distinction of this kind is to engage in an act of ...
... subjects in a manner that depends on race , thereby creating different incentives for subjects in racially distinct popula- tion subgroups . Responding to these incentives , subjects adapt according to how they expect to be perceived ...
... subject will be interpreted . Let us suppose that social outcomes ( inequality , mobil- ity , performance ) for subjects depend on the qualities of “ structures , " the nature of subjects , and the behaviors of subjects and observers ...