RACE, CLASS, AND THE POSTINDUSTRIAL CITY -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. THE SHADOW BEHIND THE ACT -- THE BEGINNINGS OF A BLACK SCHOLAR -- THE WASHINGTON STATE YEARS -- THE AMHERST YEARS -- THE SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO -- WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: THE EARLY YEARS -- REFOCUSING 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 -- BACKGROUND -- E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER'S LEGACY -- CONVERGENCES OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND E. FRANKLIN FRAZIER -- RACE RELATIONS IN THE CITY-A NEW FOCUS OF INTEREST -- STAGES 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 -- BACKGROUND -- MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS -- WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON DEBATES CHARLES WILLIE AND KENNETH CLARK -- THEORY AND RESEARCH ON THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS -- THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS OF THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS -- RESEARCH ON THE BLACK MIDDLE CLASS -- MODERN INDUSTRIAL RACE RELATIONS: THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF THE BLACK UNDERCLASS -- THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES ON THE URBAN BLACK UNDERCLASS -- RESEARCH ON WILSON'S MACROSOCIOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES OF THE URBAN UNDERCLASS -- 4. DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE CHANGING URBAN BLACK POPULATION -- BACKGROUND -- BLACK MIGRATION, POPULATION GROWTH, AND MOBILITY -- RACIAL SEGREGATION AND GHETTOIZATION -- HISTORIC SEGREGATION -- CONTEMPORARY SEGREGATION -- AN 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 -- BACKGROUND.

BRINGING CULTURE INTO A SOCIAL STRUCTURAL THEORY -- THE TRADITIONAL AND CURRENT GHETTO -- THE DECLINE OF FAMILY AMONG THE INNER-CITY BLACK POOR -- HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE GHETTO POOR -- OTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE MORAL AND SOCIAL ORDEROF THE GHETTO -- 6. THE WORLD OF THE NEW URBAN POOR: Jobless Ghettos, Fading Inner-City Families, and the Changing Significance of Race -- INTRODUCTION -- THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WORK AND JOBLESS GHETTOS -- THE CHANGING MEANING AND SIGNIFICANCE OF RACE AMONG EMPLOYERS -- THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM OF INDIVIDUALISM -- THE AMERICAN BELIEF SYSTEM IN CROSS-NATIONAL CONTEXTS -- COALITION POLITICS AND "THE BRIDGE OVER THE RACIAL DIVIDE" -- OTHER REFLECTIONS ON "WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS" -- 7. WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON AND THE PROMISE OF SOCIOLOGY -- BACKGROUND -- A KALEIDOSCOPE OF IMAGES -- THE SOCIOLOGIST AND PUBLIC POLICY -- REFOCUSING NORMATIVE SOCIAL THEORY ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- REFOCUSING THE LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- 8. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOCIOLOGICAL PRISMS AND CONTROVERSIES -- BACKGROUND -- THE FORMAL APPROACH -- THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF ACTION -- THE HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE: CONTINUING POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES -- 9. THE CONTINUING SIGNIFICANCEOF RACE AND RACIAL PRISMS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON -- BACKGROUND -- THE MYRDAL PROBLEM AND THE CONTINUING AMERICAN DILEMMA -- INTERGROUP PERSPECTIVES OF RACE RELATIONS -- MICROSOCIOLOGICAL AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES -- 10. EPILOGUE -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR AND NAME INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.