Summary Of The Anatomy Of Racial Inequality

The injustices against the black community in America, manifested through systematic racial inequality, segregated neighborhoods and schools, disproportionate rates of incarnation and, more recently, aggressive, and sometimes fatal violence against minorities by law enforcement, must end. Community organization, as a proven catalyst for change, can begin generating local solutions to long-standing segregation, discrimination, and violence through the informing and transforming of public opinion when instigated within marginalized neighborhoods and their surrounding communities.
Through understanding racial inequality as a long-standing issue in America’s history which has created inherent biases within the social, political, and cultural institutions
Loury’s The Anatomy of Racial Inequality provides an economic look at the history of racial inequality, the current condition, and forecasts the future of the race relations. Loury argues that racial inequality stems not from the race itself, but negative racial stereotyping and biases that are deeply rooted in American political, economic, social, and cultural institutions. Because of these inherent stigmas that exist in our nation, simply by implementing equality (i.e., Civil Rights Act of 1964) does not begin to alleviate the problem. This is argument is supported when assessing the 25-page appendix of factual data Loury presents to summarize the manifestation of the racial stigma against the African-American community in America. To name a few: black men with a college degree will earn less than a white man with a college degree. Over twice as many 18-24-year-old African-American children live in poverty as white children; on average, black families earn almost half as much than white families. , Employment for white individuals over black individuals is almost double. Incarceration rates of black men are three times that of white