Race, class, and the postindustrial city : William Julius Wilson and thepromise of sociology / Frank Harold Wilson.

The shadow behind the act -- Industrialization, urbanization, and the changing class structure of Blacks -- Changing patterns of race and class : the emergence of the new Black middle class and the urban Black underclass -- Demographic and ecological analyses of the changing urban Black population -- The socialand moral order of the Black community : social isolation, concentration effects, and disorganization -- The world of the new urban poor : jobless ghettos, fading inner-city families, and the changing significance of race -- William JuliusWilson and the promise of sociology -- The significance of sociological prisms and controversies -- The continuing significance of race and racial prisms in the sociology of William Julius Wilson.