Review
"The Anatomy of Racial Inequality" by Glenn C. Loury is a theoretical treatise that attempts to reconfigure and refocus the conceptual perspective from which social scientists construct frameworks for studying and explaining African-American social and economic disadvantage...He presents a compelling look at issues of racial inequality, which ostensibly deals with economic issues by drawing upon other social science fields such as sociology and social psychology. His approach is well conceived and "novel" in that it makes use of the insights of these other fields by applying them to broader aspects of the American social matrix than is traditionally allowed in analyzing economic inequality. He succeeds primarily because he does not restrict his analysis of economic inequality to those constricts and variables that can only be explained by quantitative analysis of economic data, phenomena, and trends...[W]hat is new in Loury's treatise is his contention that their racial stigma should clearly displace racial discrimination as the key conceptual approach to studying and understanding racial inequality...[" The Anatomy of Racial Inequality"] provide[s] important contributions to our understanding of the challenges that continue to confront African-Americans socially, educationally, and economically...Loury's work provides ample theoretical fodder and a sound rationale for empirically testing and assessing the structural aspects of these same constructs. -- Larry L. Rowley "Educational Researcher" (05/01/2004)
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Challenging the orthodoxies of both Left and Right, Glenn Loury is one of the most prominent and controversial black American intellectuals. A major statement of a position developed since the 1990s, this book both epitomizes and explains Loury's understanding of the depressed conditions of so much of black American society at the beginning of the 21st century - and the origins, consequences and implications for the future of these conditions.
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