Authors:

  • Matthew Desmond

Excerpt

Who speaks for the dispossessed? Matthew Desmond, April 22, 2015, Paper. "This commentary articulates three perspectives on race in America: economic determinism, institutionalism and a field-theoretic approach. It argues that William Julius Wilson's masterwork, The Declining Significance of Race, was informed by the first and anticipated the latter two. Wilson's most profound and enduring legacy is his unwavering concern for the dispossessed..." Link