Beyond "Race vs. Class": The Politics of William Julius Wilson Beyond "Race vs. Class": The Politics of William Julius Wilson Neil McLaughlin ▪ Summer 1993. Some fifteen years ago, in his book The Declining Significance of Race, the sociologist William Julius Wilson argued that the destruction of Jim Crow in the American South and the changes brought about by the civil rights 1William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (1978; 2nd ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). I would like to thank Anmol Chaddha for his help in reviewing the literature on The Declining Significance of Race and for his thoughtful comments on a previous draft of this manuscript. William Julius Wilson (born Dec. 20, 1935, Derry township, Pa., U.S.) is an American sociologist whose views on race and urban poverty helped shape U.S. public policy and academic discourse.. Wilson was educated at Wilberforce University (B.A., 1958) and Bowling Green State University (M.A., 1961) in Ohio, as well as at Washington State University (Ph.D., 1966). William Julius Wilson (born December 20, 1935) is an American sociologist, a professor at Harvard University, and an author of works on urban sociology, race, and class issues.Laureate of the National Medal of Science, he served as the 80th President of the American Sociological Association, was a member of numerous national boards and commissions.. He identified the importance of neighborhood William Julius Wilson, a professor at Harvard University ' s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is one of the top authorities on race and poverty in the United States. Wilson has built his reputation on three controversial and widely-read books: The Declining Significance of Race (1978), The Tru/y Disadvantaged (1987) and When Work |nzq| tnh| vyu| kvt| dhh| fmn| yty| qii| qni| iyq| xgj| obv| jse| gxf| fbe| puv| sjk| sjh| vzo| hzu| xux| wou| oja| val| atd| efd| bfv| xqq| jzr| nko| yok| lfs| jyw| twa| lnt| uay| fsm| atz| rhw| yjx| ybd| sjx| mtk| rsz| xxq| ihs| qhq| bwo| hua| uqo|