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Anatomy of Racial Inequality

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ISBN-10: 0674012429

ISBN-13: 9780674012424

Edition: 2002

Authors: Glenn C. Loury

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Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn 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. Using an economist's approach, Loury describes a vicious cycle of tainted social information that has resulted in a self-replicating pattern of racial stereotypes that…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.50" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858

Boston University professor Glenn Loury was educated at Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Loury has taught at Harvard University, Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. He is currently on the commission for the National Academy of Science and was elected vice president of the American Economics Association in 1997. Loury has contributed writing to The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and National Review. He also is an editor for The New Republic. Loury's book "One by One, From the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America," which won the 1996 American Book Award and the 1996 Christianity…    

Preface
Introduction
Racial Stereotypes
Racial Stigma
Racial Justice
Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
References
Index