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This paper discusses change in the African American population at the start of the 21st century. It presents population, employment, and residential changes among African Americans. It concludes by glossing the progressive integration, continuing significance of race, and changing significance of race explanations of changes in the African American population. It concludes that the data best fit the changing significance of race model.
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He earned his doctorate from the University of Michigan. He is author of Race, Class, and the Postindustrial City: William Julius Wilson and the Promise of Sociology.
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Wilson, F.H. Recent changes in the african american population within the united states and the question of the color line at the beginning of the 21st century. Journal of African American Studies 9, 15–32 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-005-1007-7
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