num_pages: 204
description: When first published in 1980, The Declining Significance of Race immediately sparked controversy with its contentious thesis that race was becoming less of a deciding factor in the life chances of black Americans than class.
language: English
title: The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
titlecomplete: The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
genres: American, Grad School, Politics, Education, Nonfiction, Economics, Sociology, Race, Class, History
ratings_count: 190
publisher: University of Chicago Press