biography
| name: |
Wilson, William Julius
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| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Sociologist, born in Derry Township, Pennsylvania, USA. He earned his PhD at Washington State University and joined the faculty of the University of Chicago (1971). He studied the ghetto poor and the cycle of poverty in America, and developed city programmes in Chicago to help urban African-Americans. His works include Power, Racism and Privilege (1973), Through Different Eyes (1973), and The Truly Disadvantaged (1987). |
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