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ISBN 10 : 0674006267 ISBN 13 : 9780674006263

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

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 1990s, 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 argues that the promise of fairness and individual freedom and dignity will remain unfulfilled without some forms of intervention based on race.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674006267
• ISBN 13: 9780674006263
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Éditeur: Vogt Evon Zartman
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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