Race and Inequality in the United States

Tony Amstrong |

In this paper, you are tasked with composing a well-written, 7-page (minimum) critical reaction to the reading assigned in Part 1 of the syllabus, including all of the assigned readings through the Wilson book and the first season of The Wire.Please incorporate responses to the following questions in your essay. Your essay should be organized around a central thesis that is supported with evidence.

What are the relative impacts of structure and culture in producing inequality? Do structuralforces interact with culture to produce poverty? Be sure to both define and provide examples of both structural and cultural factors.
What is the impact of race in producing inequality? In answering this question, please respond specifically to Wilson’s argument about framing (Ch. 5).

YOU WILL NEDD THIS BOOK AND THE REST I WILL PROVIDED IT TO YOU

Wilson, William Julius. 2009. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner

City. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN: 978-0393067057.

Reading from PART 1

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

Session 5, 2/8: Structural and Cultural Influences on Poverty

Wilson, William Julius. 2009. More Than Just Race. Chs. 1-2.

Session 6, 2/10: Wilson, Ch. 3.

Session 7, 2/15: Wilson, Chs. 4-5.

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