Another Look at The Truly Disadvantaged

Bibliographic Data

ID4286574
AuthorsWilliam Julius Wilson (corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume106
Issue4
Pages639-656
Publication date1991-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Science Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3195 • E-ISSN: 1538-165X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2151797
OpenAlexW1983563778
LanguageEN
Citations received45

In the aftermath of the controversy generated in 1965 by the Moynihan report on the black family, empirical research on inner-city poverty and other social dislocations ground to a halt. In the past few years, however, such research activity has revived as media reports and debates among academics have captured public interest in the growing problems of urban ghettos. Like the 1960s discussions of the causes and consequences of urban poverty that focused on the Moynihan report and on Oscar Lewis's work on the culture of poverty, much of the new discourse is contentious and acrimonious. My book, The TrulyDisadvantaged, has become a point of reference in this controversy and, as is too often true of controversies, a good deal of the discussion is based on inaccurate interpretations of the arguments set forth.1

Disadvantaged · Political science · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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