@article {22617,
	title = {Excerpts from The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions},
	journal = {The Declining Significance of Race},
	volume = {January-February},
	year = {1978},
	note = {Reprinted in Current, no. 203 (May-June): 31-41; reprinted in Across the Board (July 1978): 28-38; reprinted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Social Issues (edited by McKenna and Mirella Baron-Harris), Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1980, 160-168; reprinted in Prescriptions for Better Days: Readings on Policy Alternatives for America{\textquoteright}s Social Problems (edited by Robert L. Ellis and Marcia J. Lipetz), Scott Foreman and Co., 1981; reprinted in Majority \&amp; Minority: The Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Relations (edited by Norman Yetman and C. Hoy Steele), Allyn and Bacon, Third Edition, 1981; reprinted in Sources: Notable Selections in Race and Ethnicity (edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. and David V. Bakers), Guilford, CT: The Dushkin Publishing Group, 1995; excerpts from The Declining Significance of Race in Social Stratification (edited by David B. Grusky), Boulder: Westview Press, 2001, pp. 611-623; excerpt from The Declining Significance of Race in Readings in Black Economics, Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. (forthcoming); excerpt from The Declining Significance of Race in African American Studies Reader: An Introduction to the Key Debates (edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Jennifer Burton), New York: W.W. Norton, forthcoming; excerpt in Walkin{\textquoteright} The Talk: An Interdisciplinary Anthology of African American Studies (edited by Bill Lyne and Vernon Johnson), New York: Prentice Hall, forthcoming; excerpt in Perspectives in African American History and Culture (edited by Ronald Dorris, Charles Heglar and Dereef Jamison), Littleton, MA: Tapestry Press, forthcoming; excerpt in Social Class and Stratification: Classic Statements and Theoretical Debates (ed. Rhonda F. Levine). Boulder, CO: Rowman, Littlefield, forthcoming 2005; excerpts in The Inequality Reader: Contemporary and Foundational Readings in Race, Class, and Gender (edited by David B. Grusky and Szonja Szelenyi), pp.225-238. Boulder: Westview Press, 2007; excerpt in Social Stratification: Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences (edited by David Inglis and John Bone). London: Routledge, 2006; excerpt in Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective, 3rd edition (edited by David B. Grusky), pp. 691- 703. Boulder: Westview Press, 2008; excerpts in Inequality in the United States: A Reader (edited by John Brueggemann). Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2010.
},
	pages = {56-62},
	author = {William Julius Wilson}
}
