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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures)
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality - The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures Author:Glenn C. Loury 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 possibili... more »ty 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.« less