Editors' Introduction: Revisiting William J. Wilson's The Declining Significance of Race

Authors

Richard K. Caputo, Yeshiva University
Luisa S. Deprez, University of Southern Maine

Abstract

The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States in November of 2008 prompted the co-editors of this special issue to organize a panel discussion revisiting William Julius Wilson's thesis about race and class in America at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in 2009. Later that same day at the Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare's (JSSW) editorial board meeting, we recommended that JSSW consider a special issue entitled "The Declining Significance or Race-Revisited" devoted to the thesis Wilson advanced in his now-classic The Declining Significance of Race.

Recommended Citation

Caputo, Richard K. and Deprez, Luisa S. (2012) "Editors' Introduction: Revisiting William J. Wilson's The Declining Significance of Race," The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare: Vol. 39: Iss. 1, Article 2.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15453/0191-5096.3647
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol39/iss1/2