The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition

By Wilson William J.

The declining significance of race

By Wilson William J.

The Declining Significance Of Race : Blacks And Changing American Institutions

By William J. Wilson, Wilson, William J., William Julius Wilson, Wilson, William Julius

This new paperback edition includes a major new essay in which William Julius Wilson not only reflects on the debate surrounding his book, but also presents a provocative discussion of race, class,...

The Truly Disadvantaged

By Wilson William J.

The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy

By Wilson William J.

The Declining Significance Of Race: Blacks And Changing American Institutions

By William J. Wilson, Wilson, William J., William Julius Wilson

When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of...

When Work Disappears

By Wilson William J.

Wilson, one of our foremost authorities on race and poverty, challenges decades of liberal and conservative pieties to look squarely at the devastating effects that joblessness has had on our urban...

America Becoming

By Wilson William J., National Research Council US, Neil Smelser

When work disappears

By Wilson William J.

Wilson explores how the current loss of blue-collar jobs has crucially affected American society. He discusses the effects of the "suburbanization" of employment, which has excluded the black urban...

There goes the neighborhood

By Wilson William J., Richard P. Taub