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

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

    by William Julius Wilson

    Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential informa... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)

    More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)

    by William Julius Wilson

    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma. In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framewo... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

    When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

    by William Julius Wilson

    In an important and long-awaited study, one of the country's leading sociologists, the acclaimed author of The Truly Disadvantaged, analyzes the disappearance of work and its effects on the inner city of Chicago. ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1996
  • When Work Disappears

    When Work Disappears

    by William Julius Wilson

    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 ghettos. Marshaling a vast array of data and the personal stories of hundreds of men and women, Wilson... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1996
  • The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition

    The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition

    by William Julius Wilson

    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, and social policy.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition

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

    by William Julius Wilson

    Renowned American sociologist William Julius Wilson takes a look at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering a sharp evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. Rejecting both conservative and liberal interpretations of life in the inner city, Wilson offers essential informat... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • There Goes the Neighborhood

    There Goes the Neighborhood

    by William Julius Wilson • Richard P. Taub

    From one of America's most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans' most personal choices--where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-midd... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

    Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power

    by William Julius Wilson • Kenneth B. Clark • Gunnar Myrdal

    Describes how the ghetto separates Blacks not only from white people, but also from opportunities and resources.... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 1965
  • Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)

    Antidemocracy in America: Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk (Public Books Series)

    by Saskia Sassen • Pedro Noguera • Judith Butler • Craig Calhoun • Wendy Brown • Thomas J. Sugrue • Douglas S. Massey • Fred Turner • Margaret Levi • William Julius Wilson • Linda Gordon • Richard Sennett • Steven Lukes • Michelle Jackson • Victor Pickard • Patrick Sharkey • Philip Gorski • David B. Grusky • Jefferson Cowie • Scott J. Shapiro • Lisa Wade • Jack Halberstam • Oona A. Hathaway • Daniel Aldana Cohen • Shamus Khan • Alina Das • Michelle Wilde Anderson • Gretchen Blake • Richard Shrum • Tanya Marie Luhrmann • Harel. Shapira • Ashley Farmer • Professor of Sociology Michele Lamont

    On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences dras... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

    Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln

    by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne Fields

    Though not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2023
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