The declining significance of race : Blacks and changing American institutions / William Julius Wilson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, William J., 1935-
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©1978.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
United States > Race relations.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Physical Description:xii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • From racial oppression to economic class subordination
  • Slavery and plantation hegemony
  • Segregation and the rise of the white working class
  • Industrial expansion and dispersed racial conflict
  • Modern industrialization and the alteration of competitive race relations
  • Protests, politics, and the changing black class structure
  • The declining significance of race
  • Epilogue: race, class, and public policy
  • Afterword: the declining significance of race, revisited and revised.