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The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury (Brown University) and Corey Brettschneider (Brown University)

Corey acts as host of The Glenn Show, interviewing Glenn about his writings on race and affirmative action. Going back forty years, Glenn explains the evolution of his views on the legitimacy of racial preferences. Corey asks about the objection that affirmative action stigmatizes its beneficiaries. Corey notes that there was a time "when affirmative action was white." The two disagree about Chief Justice Roberts's view that legally enforced segregation in the past is necessary to justify racial assignment of students to public schools in the present. Glenn stresses the importance and ineradicable nature of racial discrimination in the intimate private sphere. Glenn considers what he would say to the more conservative Glenn of the 1980s. They conclude by discussing the so-called "mismatch hypothesis."

Recorded: Nov 20   Posted: Dec 3, 2012
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The Glenn Show | Dec 3, 2012 | Glenn Loury & Corey Brettschneider

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