“There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioecono...” — William Julius Wilson Quote

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

The middle class has just fallen further and further behind the rich.

During the Great Depression, African Americans were faced with problems that were not unlike those experienced by the most disadvantaged groups in society. The Great Depression had a leveling effect, and all groups really experienced hard times: poor whites, poor blacks.

The worst thing we could do is impose time limits and then expect people to sink or swim once they move off welfare.

Robinson was important to all blacks. To make it into the majors and to take all the name calling, he had to be something special. He had to take all this for years, not just for Jackie Robinson, but for the nation.

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

For blacks in our society, victimization may be a true issue. But it isn't a true issue for women. Neither men nor women are victimized. The true issue, that I try to point out, is that both sexes suffer restricted roles.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality - they don't feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.