Chapter 3: Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? With Glenn Loury

Chapter three: On Affirmative Action

Glenn Loury explains how affirmative action has been controversial since its inception, because it uses race as a basis of selecting applicants. However, affirmative action is not just morally gray; it can institutionalize disparities of individual performance.

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Chapter 1:    • Chapter 1: Why Does Racial Inequality...  
Chapter 2:    • Chapter 2: Why Does Racial Inequality...  
Chapter 3:    • Chapter 3: Why Does Racial Inequality...  

Additional resources:

Watch “Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America,” on Uncommon Knowledge. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/not-b....

Watch “Glenn Loury Interview: Race Relations in America Today,” on Independent Truths via Independent Institute. Available here: https://www.independent.org/multimedi....

Read “Discrimination and Disparities,” by Thomas Sowell. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/discr....

Watch “Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities,” on Uncommon Knowledge. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/thoma....

Read “Affirmative Action’s Unconvincing Defenders,” by Richard Epstein. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/affir....

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