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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462151703321

Autore

Wilson Frank Harold

Titolo

Race, class, and the postindustrial city [[electronic resource] ] : William Julius Wilson and the promise of sociology / / Frank Harold Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

0-7914-8546-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, the new inequalities

Disciplina

301/.0973

Soggetti

African American sociologists

Sociology, Urban - United States

African Americans - Social conditions

African Americans - Economic conditions

Urban poor - United States

Inner cities - United States

Electronic books.

United States Race relations

United States Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-248) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""RACE, CLASS, AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT""; ""THE BEGINNINGS OF A BLACK SCHOLAR""; ""THE WASHINGTON STATE YEARS""; ""THE AMHERST YEARS""; ""THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: THE EARLY YEARS""; ""REFOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY""; ""2. INDUSTRIALIZATION, URBANIZATION, AND THE CHANGING CLASS STRUCTURE OF BLACKS""; ""BACKGROUND""

""E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER'S LEGACY""""CONVERGENCES OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER""; ""RACE RELATIONS IN THE CITY A NEW FOCUS OF INTEREST""; ""STAGES OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND RACE RELATIONS""; ""3. CHANGING PATTERNS OF RACE AND CLASS: The Emergence of the New Black Middle Class and the Urban Black



Underclass""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON DEBATES CHARLES WILLIE AND KENNETH CLARK""; ""THEORY AND RESEARCH ON THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""

""THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""""RESEARCH ON THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS""; ""MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF THE BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS""; ""RESEARCH ON WILSON'S MACROSOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES OF THE URBAN UNDERCLASS""; ""4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BLACK MIGRATION, POPULATION GROWTH, AND MOBILITY""; ""RACIAL SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""; ""HISTORIC SEGREGATION""; ""CONTEMPORARY SEGREGATION""

""AN APPRAISAL OF WILSON'S PERSPECTIVES OF SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION""""5. THE SOCIAL AND MORAL ORDER OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY: Social Isolation, Concentration Effects, and Disorganization""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""BRINGING CULTURE INTO A SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORY""; ""THE TRADITIONAL AND CURRENT GHETTO""; ""THE DECLINE OF FAMILY AMONG THE INNER-CITY BLACK POOR""; ""HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE GHETTO POOR""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL ORDEROF THE GHETTO""

""6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race""""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK AND JOBLESS GHETTOS""; ""THE CHANGING MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE AMONG EMPLOYERS""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM OF INDIVIDUALISM""; ""THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM IN CROSS-NATIONAL CONTEXTS""; ""COALITION POLITICS AND ""THE BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE""""; ""OTHER REFLECTIONS ON ""WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS""""; ""7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY""; ""BACKGROUND""; ""A KALEIDOSCOPE OF IMAGES""

""THE SOCIOLOGIST AND PUBLIC POLICY""