Background
Mr. Loury was born on September 3, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was a son of Everett Loury and Gloria Roosely.
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In a call for a fundamental reconsideration of racial inequality in America, the standard dichotomy of liberal and conservative policies is dismissed in favor of genuine interracial acceptance and self-accountability.
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1995
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Mr. Loury was born on September 3, 1948, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was a son of Everett Loury and Gloria Roosely.
Glenn Loury earned Doctor of Philosophy, after graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1976.
During the period of 1976-1979 Mr. Loury worked at Northwestern University, Evanston, as an assistant professor of economics. From 1979 till 1980 he was appointed associate professor at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, professor of economics, 1980-1982. After that he served at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, holding the post of professor of economics an Afro-American studies, 1982-1984, professor of political economy, 1984-1991.
Starting from 1991 he acted as a professor of economics at Boston University, Boston, MA. Mr. Loury joined the staff of American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, working as a Bradley lecturer, 1992, 1994. He was a visiting lecturer at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad, including Oxford University, Tel Aviv University, and University of Stockholm.
Then he became a chairperson of board of directors at Center for New Black Leadership, Washington, DC. Later Glenn Loury joined Center of the American Experiment, becoming a member of board of advisers. He testified before U.S. Senate and U-S. House of Representatives, was a guest on television and radio programs, including Firing Line, Group, and Think Tank. Mr. Loury also served as a consultant to Federal Trade Commission, Center for Naval Analyses, and American Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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Quotations:
"As a black intellectual making my living in the academic establishment during a period of growing racial conflict in our society, I have often experienced some dissonance between my self-concept and the socially imputed definition of who I am supposed to be. I have had to confront the problem of balancing my desire not to disappoint the expectations of others (both whites and blacks, but more especially blacks) with my conviction that one should live with integrity. This does not make me a heroic figure; I eschew the libertarian ideologue’s rhetoric about the glorious individual who, though put-upon by society, blazes his own path. I acknowledge that this opposition between individual and society is ambiguous, in view of the fact that the self is inevitably shaped by the objective world and by other selves. I know that what one is being faithful to when resisting the temptation to conform to others’ expectations is always a socially determined, if subjectively experienced, vision of the self."
"The irony is that, to the extent that we individual blacks see ourselves primarily through a racial lens, we sacrifice possibilities for the kind of personal development that would ultimately further our collective, racial interests. We cannot be truly free men and women while laboring under a definition of self derived from the perceptual view of our oppressor, confined to the contingent facts of our oppression. It seems to me that, too often, a search for some mythic, authentic blackness works to hold back young black souls from flight into the open skies of American society, in the same way that James Joyce said Irish nationalism holds back the Irish soul. Of course, there is the constraint of racism also holding us back. But the trick, as Joyce knew, is to turn such nets into wings and to fly by them. One cannot do that if one refuses to see that, ultimately, it is neither external constraint nor expanded opportunity that makes this flight possible, it is the in-dwelling spirit."
Glenn Loury married Charlene, but the couple soon divorced. Then he married Charlene Teague on April 5, 1969 (divorced in 1980). For the third time Mr. Loury married Linda Datcher Patricia on June 11, 1983. Mr. Loury has five children: Glenn Cartman III, Lisa Loury Lomas, Nehemiah Matthew, Tamara Elaine Chrisler, Alden Keith.