The 2017 Wilson Lecture William Julius Wilson: Reflections on Race, Class and Cumulative Adversity

This lecture will revisit some of the major arguments advanced in William Julius Wilson’s seminal books, The Truly Disadvantaged (1987) and When Work Disappears (1996), to elucidate problems associated with the increased income segregation in communities of color since 1970, including low-income neighborhoods where the growing income segregation is exacerbated by racial segregation. In the process he will reflect on issues of race and class that are important to the nation, including social and public policy challenges, as we enter an era of uncertainty under a Trump administration.
This program is generously funded by an endowment from Carolyn Ann Wilson, Class of 1910.