Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City

Frank Harold Wilson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

"…Frank Harold Wilson has taken on the entirety of intellectual and public life of Bill Wilson … This is quite an undertaking … a somewhat bold endeavor that is to be commended." — Ethnic and Racial Studies"The very existence of a book on William Julius Wilson is unexpected, as there is rarely a work on a living scholar. Yet, it is clear that such a book is needed: Wilson is the central figure in the area of race and has dominated the dialogue on race for nearly two decades. This is a must-read." — Hayward Derrick Horton, coeditor of Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era

• PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT The Beginnings of a Black ScholarThe Washington State YearsThe Amherst YearsThe Sociology Department at the University of ChicagoWilliam Julius Wilson at the University of Chicago: The Early YearsRefocusing 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 BackgroundE. Franklin Frazier's LegacyConvergences of William Julius Wilson and E. Franklin FrazierRace Relations in the City—A New Focus of InterestStages 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 BackgroundModern Industrial Race Relations: The Emergence of the New Black Middle ClassWilliam Julius Wilson Debates Charles Willie and Kenneth ClarkTheory and Research on the New Black Middle ClassTheoretical Discussions of the New Black Middle ClassResearch on the Black Middle ClassModern Industrial Race Relations: The Emergence and Growth of the Black UnderclassTheoretical Controversies on the Urban Black UnderclassResearch on Wilson's Macrosociological Hypotheses of the Urban Underclass 4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION BackgroundBlack Migration, Population Growth, and MobilityRacial Segregation and GhettoizationHistoric SegregationContemporary SegregationAn 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 BackgroundBringing Culture into a Social Structural TheoryThe Traditional and Current GhettoThe Decline of Family among the Inner-City Black PoorHuman and Social Capital and the Ghetto PoorOther Reflections on the Moral and Social Order of the Ghetto 6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: JOBLESS GHETTOS, FADING INNER-CITY FAMILIES, AND THE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE IntroductionThe Disappearance of Work and Jobless GhettosThe Changing Meaning and Significance of Race among EmployersThe American Belief System of IndividualismThe American Belief System in Cross-National ContextsCoalition Politics and The Bridge Over the Racial DivideOther Reflections on When Work Disappears 7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY BackgroundA Kaleidoscope of ImagesThe Sociologist and Public PolicyRefocusing Normative Social Theory on Social ProblemsRefocusing the Liberal Perspective on Social Problems 8. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRISMS AND CONTROVERSIES BackgroundThe Formal ApproachThe Symbolic Language of ActionThe Holistic Perspective Vision: Continuing Possibilities and Challenges 9. THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE AND RACIAL PRISMS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON BackgroundThe Myrdal Problem and the Continuing American DilemmaIntergroup Perspectives of Race RelationsMicrosociological and Personal Perspectives 10. EPILOGUE References Author and Name Index Subject Index