The New Economy and Racial Inequality
1842nd Stated Meeting - Cambridge
William Julius Wilson (Harvard University)
February 14, 2001
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In a talk focusing on the period since 1945, William Julius Wilson
related the issues of race and inequality—including racial and ethnic
antagonisms—to the changing American economy. He also considered the
implications of this discussion for addressing issues of race through public
policy.
Mr. Wilson 's research addresses the impact of inequality and
poverty on racial and ethnic relations, urban poverty, family structure, and
joblessness as well as the role of public policies in both alleviating and
exacerbating these problems. He is the author of The Declining Significance of
Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions, winner of the American
Sociological Association's Sydney Spivak Award; The Truly Disadvantaged: The
Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy; When Work Disappears: The World
of the New Urban Poor, and, most recently, The Bridge over the Racial
Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics. Past president of the
American Sociological Association, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, and a recipient of
the National Medal of Science, Wilson has been a member of many national boards
and commissions including the President's Commission on White House
Fellowships, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the
Russell Sage Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. He is currently
director of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard's
John F. Kennedy School of Government. Read
the transcript in the Bulletin.
For more information please contact Suzanne
Morse at (617) 576-5047.
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