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Glenn Lowry is a renowned black economist.

He was an academic superstar in the past.

At the age of 33, he became the first black scholar

to be granted tenure in Harvard's economics department.

Professor Lowry is now 75 years old and teaches at Brown University,

and he's out with a new memoir called Late Admissions, Confessions of a Black Conservative.

A fitting title, as Black and Conservative are the two identities he grapples with throughout the book.

Identities he both strongly associates with, but at times have felt like they were at odds.

After graduating from MIT in 1967, with his PhD in economics, Lowry was projected to be

one of the great economic theorists of his time.

But in the early 1980s, he made a crucial pivot from economic theory to social critic.

More specifically, he became a leading conservative black voice.

He's been a critic of the Civil Rights Movement of Affirmative Action and the Black Lives Matter

movement. That won him praise from conservative thinkers but also scorn from

many black leaders and other progressive leaders including Harvard colleague and friend

Martin Kilson who once called Lowry quote a pathetic black mascot of the

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