Late Admissions (eBook)

Confessions of a Black Conservative

Glenn Loury (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
448 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-88135-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Economist Glenn C. Loury is one of the most prominent public American intellectuals of our time: he's often radically opposed to the political mainstream and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more so than the arguments themselves-on affirmative action, institutional racism, Trumpism-his public life has been characterised by fearlessness and a willingness to recalibrate strongly held and forcefully argued beliefs.Loury grew up on the south side of Chicago, earned a PhD in MIT's economics programme and became the first Black tenured professor of economics at Harvard at the age of thirty-three. He has been, at turns, a young father, a drug addict, an adulterer, a psychiatric patient, a born-again Christian, a lapsed born-again Christian, a Black Reaganite who has swung from the right to the left and back again. In Late Admissions, Loury examines what it means to chart a sense of self over the course of a tempestuous but well-considered, life.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: black reaganite • born-again christian • Conservatism • Drug Addiction • economist • Father • Institutional racisim • Memoir • Public Intellectual • Race • racial inequality • Social critic
• ISBN-10: 0-393-88135-0 / 0393881350
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-88135-6 / 9780393881356