Publication

2002 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

56,500 words, Guess

Page Count

226 pages

Identifiers

and 6 more
  • LibraryThing325662
  • Goodreads4646584
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001039192
  • OCLC Control Number47161514
  • Better World Books9780674006256
  • Open LibraryOL3948974M

Classifications

  • DDC305.896/073
  • LCCE185.615 .L675 2002
  • LCCE185.615.L675 2001

Description

Why are black Americans so persistently confined to the margins of society? And why do they fail across so many metrics—wages, unemployment, income levels, test scores, incarceration rates, health outcomes? Known for his influential work on the economics of racial inequality and for pioneering the link between racism and social capital, Glenn Loury is not afraid of piercing orthodoxies and coming to controversial conclusions. In this now classic work, reconsidered in light of recent events, he describes how a vicious cycle of tainted social information helped create the racial stereotypes that rationalize and sustain discrimination, and suggests how this might be changed. 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 of seeing beyond—the damning categorization of race.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • W.E.B. Du Bois lectures

Other Editions

  • The anatomy of racial inequalityHarvard University Press2002-01-01

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