(Ebook) Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology by Frank Harold Wilson ISBN 9780791485460, 0791485463

(Ebook) Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology by Frank Harold Wilson ISBN 9780791485460, 0791485463

Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City thoroughly 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.