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Image of There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Vintage)
Author: Richard P. Taub, William Julius Wilson
Publisher: Vintage (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (Issues of Our Time)
Author: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 208 pages
Image of When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
Author: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: Vintage (1997)
Binding: Paperback, 322 pages
Image of The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy
Author: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (1990)
Binding: Paperback, 261 pages
Image of The Declining Significance of Race : Blacks and Changing American Institutions
Author: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (1980)
Binding: Paperback, 251 pages
Image of The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Wildavsky Forum Series)
Author: William Julius Wilson
Publisher: University of California Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 173 pages

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