BOOK REVIEW

Book Review



More than Just Race

Introduction

When Barrack Obama took the oath of President as USA's first black president no one remembered that the nation's most cut off and poor ghetto was distant at few blocks. Obama mentioned that at present era the severe racial prejudice have fallen. As the civil rights movement has taken hype so the poverty, hopelessness and violence have also increased. The main problem which is promoting racism is violence, instant satisfaction of requirements and low emphasis on ethics. Those who are liberals give a generous response but which is very ambiguous. Those who are blacks suffer from every kind of racism, such as covert, unconscious, institutional, and environmental, that is existent but may not directly relate to the white people (Richard, 2009).

Special experience or training

William Julius Wilson has presented his own research conducting since past twenty years explaining the case that deficiencies and weaknesses related to the society and the institutions make the process slow for blacks to shun poverty and ghetto. The factors related to the society involves vast, sudden changes in economy happened recently and the inheritance of discrimination. Ghetto was created by the national prejudice on the state level early in the 20th century when the local government divided itself by the power of law and late on through such individual agreements which made blacks out of white neighborhoods. In 1960s the federal government took action favoring racism by refusing mortgages to inner-city neighborhoods. This act was quickly followed by private lenders (Richard, 2009).

Sources of evidence

Some incidents took place such that helped increased racism and the problems of ghetto. The factor was that new highways and inexpensive real estate attracted middle class residents which left their inner city and moved there during the 60s and 70s. Those jobs which were still intact to the black people further decreased in size because the larger companies replaced American workers who could work with mechanization and cheap overseas labor. The new economy developed a new system for paying wages: high wages for e4ducated workers and low wages for less-skilled and less-educated workers. The blacks who were more successfully established left the inner city for better infrastructure such as schools, law and order, low tax. This made the ghettos occupied by those who were cut off socially and economically depressed (Waldinger, 1996).

Nature of the book

Wilson wrote this book with focusing on rest mind of readers. The main audience targeted is the scholars, policy makers and lay readers. He didn't provide with any major statistical influences but eh intellectually proved his point that race place an important place. He rejected the logically colorblind biased dialogue he once championed as a means widen open conversation about issues of inner-city deficiency (Waldinger, 1996).

Importance of title

The book title reveals the idea of arguments centrally hot related to the basic importance of the force of race on the intense poverty on the urban city. He influenced on remote economic forces.

Author's theme

The key purpose in writing the book ...