Analyzing the socio-economics of race in America, the author concludes that inequality is on the rise in American society and suggests the need for a broad-based coalition to combat it.
William Julius Wilson, a MacArthur Prize Fellow, is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is past president of the American Sociological Association and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Education. In 1998 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. His previous books includePower, Racism, and Privilege (1976), The Declining Significance of Race (1979),The Truly Disadvantaged (1987), and When Work Disappears (1996).