[BOOK][B] Racial conflict and economic development
WA Lewis - 1985 - degruyter.com
WA Lewis
1985•degruyter.comTHESE WΕB DU Bois LECTURES were delivered at Harvard University in the spring of
1982." Come and give six public lectures next year on a multidisciplinary topic" is a call to
reflection, rather than to research. What readers will find in this book is not a systematic
treatise, but a set of topics on which I have pondered from time to time. With luck my set of
interests will overlap with theirs. Because most of my life has been lived outside the United
States, my reflections are not mainly about American patterns. Two chapters (5 and 6) …
1982." Come and give six public lectures next year on a multidisciplinary topic" is a call to
reflection, rather than to research. What readers will find in this book is not a systematic
treatise, but a set of topics on which I have pondered from time to time. With luck my set of
interests will overlap with theirs. Because most of my life has been lived outside the United
States, my reflections are not mainly about American patterns. Two chapters (5 and 6) …
THESE WΕB DU Bois LECTURES were delivered at Harvard University in the spring of 1982." Come and give six public lectures next year on a multidisciplinary topic" is a call to reflection, rather than to research. What readers will find in this book is not a systematic treatise, but a set of topics on which I have pondered from time to time. With luck my set of interests will overlap with theirs.
Because most of my life has been lived outside the United States, my reflections are not mainly about American patterns. Two chapters (5 and 6), however, deal exclusively with the United States labor market. Two others (8 and 9) deal exclusively with the European colonies; the remaining chapters benefit, I hope, from having wider perspectives. The subjects dealt with are highly controversial. Among the ones that have provoked a flood of books or articles in
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