The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty: Round Two of the Willie/Wilson DebateTo find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com. |
Contents
The Inclining Significance of Race | 10 |
The Declining Significance of Race Revisited But Not Revised | 22 |
Alternative Perspectives on Race and Social Class | 37 |
THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE | 46 |
Significance of Race in the 1960s | 47 |
Significance of Race in the 1970s | 63 |
COMMENTARY ON THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE | 92 |
If We Won Why Arent We Smiling? | 93 |
On the Declining and Increasing Significance of Race | 110 |
COMMENTARY ON THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED | 130 |
The Theory of the UnderClass A Review of Wilsons The Truly Disadvantaged | 131 |
Rebuttal to a Conservative Strategy for Reducing Poverty | 142 |
Are NonRaceSpecific Policies the Key to Resolving the Plight of the InnerCity Poor? | 156 |
CONCLUSION | 165 |
On the Prevention and Cure of Poverty and Racism | 166 |
Index | 179 |
Camouflaging the Color Line A Critique | 99 |
The Changing Not Declining Significance of Race | 104 |
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affirmative action affluent argument assertion behavior black families black life chances black males black poor black population black under-class blacks and whites Boston Globe Census changes civil rights culture of poverty decades Declining Significance desegregation Dix Hills dominant economic educated blacks employment Franklin Frazier ghetto graduates groups guilt Herman Miller increasing inequality inner-city poor institutional less lower-class macro-social mainstream Moynihan nation number of blacks occupational opportunities patterns percent perspective political poor blacks poor whites position poverty among blacks Press problem professional Professor Wilson programs proportion of black race relations racial antagonism racial discrimination racial minorities racial oppression racial populations racism residential school desegregation sector segregated Significance of Race social class social scientists society Sociological stratification structural subdominant theory tion truly disadvantaged U.S. Bureau United University Washington white families white males William Julius William Julius Wilson Willie Willie's Wilson's analysis workers York