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 rationalize and
sustain discrimination. His analysis shows how the restrictions
placed on black development by stereotypical and stigmatizing
racial thinking deny a whole segment of the population the
possibility of self-actualization that American society
reveres--something that many contend would be undermined by
remedies such as affirmative action. On the contrary, this book
persuasively argues that the promise of fairness and individual
freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of
intervention based on race.
Brilliant in its account of how racial classifications are
created and perpetuated, and how they resonate through the social,
psychological, spiritual, and economic life of the nation, this
compelling and passionate book gives us a new way of seeing--and,
perhaps, seeing beyond--the damning categorization of race in
America.
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