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Burns, John – 1990
A premise of this paper is that in his book "The Truly Disadvantaged" (1987), William Julius Wilson fails to recognize the effect of covert racism on the plight of the African American underclass. Wilson asserts that historical racism has contributed to the present predicament of the underclass, who have been abandoned in the ghettos by…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Stereotypes, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged
