Analyzing Wilson's More Than Just Race

American’s. Furthermore, his condescending advice for black Americans to take more personal responsibility again contradicts his main argument that the structural reality must change to facilitate new cultural adaptations.
Although, Wilson’s comparison of European and American attitudes toward the causes of poverty is equally good, he does not fare well in mentioning any research on important family and inner-city adaptations such as resource sharing and in informal kinship networks that have been the backbone of many black families and communities. While he encourages readers to see dysfunction in urban people as opposed to urban situations, he implies at the same time that inner-city black American’s have no positive cultural characteristics which is very contradicting.
In reading “More than Just Race”, it is evident that Wilson knows change is going to be difficult. Although, he himself provided no meaningful solutions, he makes clear that that there will continue to be a pattern of out of wedlock births, young men returning to their communities committing crimes and fragmentation families until (1) individuals change their way of thinking (2) we look at culture for an answer.
In closing, reading “More Than Just Race” was both bitter and sweet. Bitter because Wilson was very contradicting and provided no meaningful recommendation as to …show more content…
Growing up in black female-headed household in predominately low-income neighborhood, I witnessed firsthand the self-destructive behavior amongst blacks within the black community, more specifically my own family. The fragmentation of black families, people not caring for academic progression, inappropriate behaviors leading to criminal behavior, and girls engaging in early sex often leading to early

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