Title: Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City
Description: "Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City explores the scholarship of William Julius Wilson, one of the nation's leading sociologists and public intellectuals, and the controversies surrounding his work. In addressing the connection between postindustrial cities and changing race relations, the author, who is not related to William Julius Wilson, shows how Wilson has synthesized competing theories of race relations, urban sociology, and public policy into a refocused liberal analysis of postindustrial America. Combining intellectual biography, the sociology of knowledge, and theoretical analyses of sociological debates relevant to African Americans, this book provides both appraisal and critique ultimately, assessing Wilson's contribution to the sociological canon."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: African American sociologists, Biography, Urban Sociology, African Americans, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Urban poor, Inner cities, Race relations, Social policy, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Social Scientists & Psychologists, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, General, Regional Studies, Sociology, Sociologists, biography, Sociology, urban, African americans, social conditions, African americans, economic conditions, United states, race relations, United states, social policy