There Goes the Neighborhood - William Julius Wilson

From one of America's most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans' most personal choices-where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research which accompanies them reveal honest yet disturbing realities-ones that remind us why the elusive American dream of integrated neighborhoods remains a priority of race relations in our time.