Browsing by Author "Wilson, William Julius"
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Being Poor, Black, and American: The Impact of Political, Economic, and Cultural Forces
Wilson, William Julius (American Federation of Teachers, 2011) -
The Declining Significance of Race: Revisited & Revised
Wilson, William Julius (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2011)I published The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions thirty-two years ago, in 1978. Given the furor and controversy over the book immediately following its publication, I did not ... -
Framing Race and Poverty
Wilson, William Julius (American Sociological Association, 2009)William Julius Wilson argues it's extremely important to discuss how race and poverty are related in public policy discussions. Policies must be framed to facilitate a frank discussion of the problems that ought to be ... -
Gentrification, Race, and Immigration in the Changing American City
Hwang, Jackelyn (2015-08-19)This dissertation examines how gentrification—a class transformation—unfolds along racial and ethnic lines. Using a new conceptual framework, considering the city-level context of immigration and residential segregation, ... -
(Hiding) in Plain Sight: How Class Matters Differently Among Low-Income Students in Suburban Schools
Zhu, Queenie X. (2016-05-18)U.S. suburbia is rapidly changing, becoming home to increasing numbers of poor families and immigrants. However, traditionally disadvantaged students who attend well-resourced middle-class suburban schools have been largely ... -
Meritless: Unemployed Autoworkers, the Social Safety Net, and the Culture of Meritocracy in America and Canada
Chen, Victor Tan (2013-02-22)This study examines the worsening position of jobless blue-collar workers in an increasingly meritocratic economy, and uses an innovative crossnational comparative approach to gauge how much the social safety net improves ... -
More Than Just Race: A Rejoinder
Wilson, William Julius (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) -
More Than Just Race: A Response to William Darity, Jr. and Mark Gould
Wilson, William Julius (Cambridge University Press, 2011)I welcome the opportunity to respond to two extensive and provocative review essays of my book, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. An author seldom gets the chance to reply to reviews in the same ... -
The Obama Administration's Proposals to Address Concentrated Urban Poverty
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On the Nature of Cultural Capital: The Reinforcing Action of Non-Elite Forms and Racial Differences in Student Achievement in the Middle Class
Cooke-Rivers, Jacqueline Olga (2014-10-21)This dissertation argues that cultural capital is self-reinforcing in nature. This conjecture is explored through the analysis of sixth-four semi-structured interviews with black and white middle class parents. The first ... -
Race, Social Context, and Consumption: How Race Structures the Consumption Preferences and Practices of Middle and Working-Class Blacks
Pittman, Cassi (2012-11-02)The contemporary experience of race in America demands that blacks become astute observers of their surroundings, required to read subtle social, interactional and environmental cues to determine how to appropriately engage ... -
Reassessing “Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality”
Sampson, Robert; Wilson, William Julius; Katz, Hanna (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)In “Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality,” Sampson and Wilson (1995) argued that racial disparities in violent crime are attributable in large part to the persistent structural disadvantages that are ... -
Reflections on a Sociological Career that Integrates Social Science with Social Policy
Wilson, William Julius (Annual Reviews, 2011)This autobiographical essay reflects on my sociological career, highlighting the integration of sociology with social policy. I discuss the personal, social, and intellectual experiences, ranging from childhood to adult ... -
The Role of Theory in Ethnographic Research
Wilson, William Julius; Chaddha, Anmol (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Scholars, including urban poverty researchers, have not seriously debated the important issues that Loïc Wacquant raised in his controversial review of books by Elijah Anderson, Mitchell Duneier, and Katherine Newman ... -
Same Folks, Different Strokes: Class, Culture, and the “New” Diversity at Elite Colleges and Universities
Jack, Anthony Abraham (2016-05-14)Beginning in 1998, selective colleges began adopting no-loan admissions policies to increase socioeconomic diversity. These colleges, however, get their new diversity from old sources. I show how half of lower-income black ... -
Slow Train Coming: Power, Politics, and Redevelopment Planning in an American City
Levine, Jeremy (2016-05-18)Who decides which neighborhoods receive affordable housing, community gardens, or job centers? How do these organizations and agencies get a seat at the decision-making table? And what can urban redevelopment politics tell ... -
Toward a Framework for Understanding Forces that Contribute to or Reinforce Racial Inequality
Wilson, William Julius (Springer-Verlag, 2009)For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of African Americans. The position that one takes often reflects ideological bias. ... -
"Way Down in the Hole": Systemic Urban Inequality and The Wire
Wilson, William Julius; Anmol Chaddha (University of Chicago Press, 2011)The Wire is set in a modern American city shaped by economic restructuring and fundamental demographic change that led to widespread job loss and the depopulation of inner-city neighborhoods. While the series can be viewed ... -
Why Both Social Structure and Culture Matter in a Holistic Analysis of Inner-City Poverty
Wilson, William Julius (SAGE Publications, 2010-05)A complex web of racialist and nonracialist structural forces, along with cultural forces, have adversely impacted life in inner-city black neighborhoods. Yet a number of studies have raised questions about the real effects ...