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The Glenn Show

Why Does Racial Inequality Persist? (Glenn Loury & Adaner Usmani)

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Glenn on the persistence of racial inequality ... Adaner on the persistence of racial inequality ... Determinism vs. individual moral judgment ... Is structural racism a real thing? ... Can exhortation change culture? ... Why Glenn prefers universal programs ... Does capitalism reinforce racial inequality? ... Contingent moments in America's racial history ... Glenn and Adaner offer some policy solutions ...

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You're listening to a podcast from blogging Heads TV.

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Hi, this is Glenn Lowry at bloggingheads. TV. This is a special edition of The Glenn Show featuring a debate

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between myself and the sociologist Adonar Usmani, organized by Professor Robert Ingram of Ohio University

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on the theme, why does racial inequality persist?

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Many thanks to Professor Ingram for allowing me to share this encounter

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with my Glenen show audience.

0:43.2

I hope you enjoy it. Oh, uh, yeah, me,

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really, me,

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really, me,

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uh, me, uh,

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really, uh, uh, uh,

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uh,

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uh, Welcome tonight. Thanks for tuning in to this debate. It's brought to you by the

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George Washington Forum at Ohio University.

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This event received support from Menards and from the Thomas W Smith Foundation to the Jack Miller Center.

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I want to thank them for their support.

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Tonight's guests are Glen Lowry and a donor use money.

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I appreciate them both for being here tonight. Glenn is Merton P Stoltz, professor of the Social

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Sciences and professor of Economics at Brown University.

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Before that he was Professor at Harvard and at Boston University, a fellow of the American Academy

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of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he's published widely about

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racial inequality and social policy. Adonner is an assistant professor of

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