More from William Julius Wilson

  1. Good research clearly indicates that Americans would support affirmative action programs that capture the idea of equal opportunity.
  2. I maintain that the period during the first half of the 1990s, the period in which rising inequality reached its peak, was a period in whic…
  3. During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged gr…
  4. I strongly believe in fighting inequality.
  5. Crime, family dissolution, welfare, and low levels of social organization are fundamentally a consequence of the disappearance of work.
  6. I think that social tensions have lessened because of the strong economy, and now is a time where people are concerned about promoting equa…
  7. Class-based affirmative action is good in its own right, but it is not a substitute for race-based affirmative action.
  8. If a multiracial citizen's coalition were in place, it would have the muscle to pressure national public officials to consider seriously th…

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