William J. Wilson’s scientific contributions

... This article begins with the historian Robin Kelley's lament about sociologists' representation of African American culture as being dysfunctional. One sociologist who did not fall into this trap was William Julius Wilson, who, over the course of 3 books, [69][70][71] carefully identified the reasons for the poor outcomes-including health outcomes-experienced by Black Americans in the late 20th Century. These included disappearing opportunities for work within Black communities, exacerbated by the concentrated poverty that had resulted from segregation. ...

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Socioeconomic milieu and culture: Forcing factors and the Most fundamental determinant of health