More Than Just Race - Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

Informationen zum Autor William Julius Wilson is a University Professor at Harvard University, president emeritus of the American Sociological Association, and the author of numerous books, including the award-winning The Declining Significance of Race and When Work Disappears . He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Klappentext In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight of low-skilled black males, and the fragmentation of the African American family. Though the discussion of racial inequality is typically ideologically polarized. Wilson dares to consider both institutional and cultural factors as causes of the persistence of racial inequality. He reaches the controversial conclusion that while structural and cultural forces are inextricably linked, public policy can only change the racial status quo by reforming the institutions that reinforce it. Zusammenfassung A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality! challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.

Product details

• Authors: Julius William Wilson, William Julius Wilson
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.04.2010
• EAN: 9780393337631
• ISBN: 978-0-393-33763-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Issues of Our Time (Norton Pap; Issues of Our Time
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Ethnic Studies, United States of America, USA, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General