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  • The race relations problematic in sociology. Situating Wilson's work
  • Wilson and the race-class debate today
  • Wilson and the state
  • Studying race and class : problems in assessing logical and empirical adequacy. The Reification of race
  • What is racism?
  • Confusion compounded : the multicultural movement
  • Race, class, and the problem of epistemological incoherence
  • Empirically validating the thesis of the declining significance of race
  • Inferring causality
  • Debates surrounding The declining significance of race. Some observations on racial formations
  • Racial inequality in the aggregate : trends over time
  • School practices and educational attainment
  • Earnings attainment
  • Occupational attainment
  • Authority attainment
  • Unions and the Black working class
  • Black life-chances in the state sector
  • Race and social-psychological distress
  • The Truly disadvantaged and when work disappears: critiques. Wilson on the Black underclass
  • Concentrated poverty
  • The Spatial mismatch hypothesis and urban labor markets
  • Disarticulation as a contributing factor to employment hardship
  • Marital disintegration
  • A Tangle of pathology?
  • Violence, delinquency, and crime
  • Wilson's Achilles' heel : the continuing significance of racially based segregation. Race and place
  • The Separation of the economic sector from the Sociopolitical Order Revisited
  • The Complex Motivations underlying the racial structuring of housing markets
  • Conclusion: A Bridge over the theoretical divide. The Theoretical divide
  • Bringing back the state
  • "The State" defined
  • Bridging the theoretical divide : twelve propositions
  • Theory and practice : Wilson on affirmative action.