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"Andrews does a superb job in offering solutions to familiar
problems for African Americans. Complete with charts, graphs, facts
and figures, the author provides readers with a vivid display of
how the scales of equality, wealth and power are tipped against
people of color." "Andrews' aim is to paint an intellectually defensible and
decidedly anti-conservative picture of the complicated tie between
race and economic wellbeing." "Fiery, passionate, and provocative, but also unflinchingly
rigorous in its argument. It is rare for an economist to write with
such fire bolstered by such a commitment to logical
reasoning." "Marcellus Andrews has written a fascinating and theoretically grounded account of the relationship between America's market economy and the prospects faced by African Americans."--"The Journal of Economic Issues" Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice, no matter how heartfelt, are bound to fail, Marcellus Andrews argues, since the economic foundations of the Civil Rights movement have been destroyed by the combined forces of globalization, technology, and tight government budgets. The Political Economy of Hope and Fear fills an important intellectual gap in writing on race by developing a hard-nosed economic analysis of the links between competitive capitalism, racial hostility, and persistent racial inequality in post-Civil Rights America. Andrewsspeaks to the anger and frustration that blacks feel in the face of the nation's abandonment of racial equality as a worthy objective by showing how the considerable difficulties that black Americans face are related to fundamental changes in the economic fortunes of the U.S. The Political Economy of Hope and Fear is an economist's plea for unsentimental thinking on matters of race to replace the mixture of liberal hand wringing and conservative mythmaking that currently passes for serious analysis about the nation's racial predicament.
"Andrews does a superb job in offering solutions to familiar
problems for African Americans. Complete with charts, graphs, facts
and figures, the author provides readers with a vivid display of
how the scales of equality, wealth and power are tipped against
people of color." "Andrews' aim is to paint an intellectually defensible and
decidedly anti-conservative picture of the complicated tie between
race and economic wellbeing." "Fiery, passionate, and provocative, but also unflinchingly
rigorous in its argument. It is rare for an economist to write with
such fire bolstered by such a commitment to logical
reasoning." "Marcellus Andrews has written a fascinating and theoretically grounded account of the relationship between America's market economy and the prospects faced by African Americans."--"The Journal of Economic Issues" Popular liberal writing on race has relied on appeals to the value of "diversity" and the fading memory of the Civil Rights movement to counter the aggressive conservative assault on liberal racial reform generally, and on black well-being, in particular. Yet appeals to fairness and justice, no matter how heartfelt, are bound to fail, Marcellus Andrews argues, since the economic foundations of the Civil Rights movement have been destroyed by the combined forces of globalization, technology, and tight government budgets. The Political Economy of Hope and Fear fills an important intellectual gap in writing on race by developing a hard-nosed economic analysis of the links between competitive capitalism, racial hostility, and persistent racial inequality in post-Civil Rights America. Andrewsspeaks to the anger and frustration that blacks feel in the face of the nation's abandonment of racial equality as a worthy objective by showing how the considerable difficulties that black Americans face are related to fundamental changes in the economic fortunes of the U.S. The Political Economy of Hope and Fear is an economist's plea for unsentimental thinking on matters of race to replace the mixture of liberal hand wringing and conservative mythmaking that currently passes for serious analysis about the nation's racial predicament.
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