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Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Race Relations Problematic in Sociology | p. 13 |
Situating Wilson's Work | p. 13 |
Wilson and the Race-Class Debate Today | p. 23 |
Wilson and the State | p. 38 |
Studying Race and Class: Problems in Assessing Logical and Empirical Adequacy | p. 49 |
The Reification of Race | p. 49 |
What Is Racism? | p. 53 |
Confusion Compounded: The Multicultural Movement | p. 56 |
Race, Class, and the Problem of Epistemological Incoherence | p. 63 |
Empirically Validating the Thesis of the Declining Significance of Race | p. 68 |
Inferring Causality | p. 72 |
Debates Surrounding The Declining Significance of Race | p. 83 |
Some Observations on Racial Formations | p. 83 |
Racial Inequality in the Aggregate: Trends over Time | p. 89 |
School Practices and Educational Attainment | p. 91 |
Earnings Attainment | p. 94 |
Occupational Attainment | p. 104 |
Authority Attainment | p. 115 |
Unions and the Black Working Class | p. 119 |
Black Life-Chances in the State Sector | p. 122 |
Race and Social-Psychological Distress | p. 128 |
The Truly Disadvantaged and When Work Disappears: Critiques | p. 147 |
Wilson on the Black Underclass | p. 147 |
Concentrated Poverty | p. 151 |
The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis and Urban Labor Markets | p. 153 |
Disarticulation as a Contributing Factor to Employment Hardship | p. 157 |
Marital Disintegration | p. 159 |
A Tangle of Pathology? | p. 163 |
Violence, Delinquency, and Crime | p. 167 |
Wilson's Achilles' Heel: The Continuing Significance of Racially Based Segregation | p. 181 |
Race and Place | p. 181 |
The Separation of the Economic Sector from the Sociopolitical Order Revisited | p. 191 |
The Complex Motivations Underlying the Racial Structuring of Housing Markets | p. 199 |
Conclusion | p. 206 |
Conclusion: A Bridge over the Theoretical Divide | p. 217 |
The Theoretical Divide | p. 217 |
Bringing Back the State | p. 221 |
"The State" Defined | p. 225 |
Bridging the Theoretical Divide: Twelve Propositions | p. 230 |
Theory and Practice: Wilson on Affirmative Action | p. 242 |
In Summary | p. 246 |
References | p. 259 |
Index | p. 299 |
About the Book | p. 309 |
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