 Reflecting on the three major problems reviewed in the current Wilson text, are they primarily problems of race, primarily of class or do both race and class contribute? Discuss. In the late 1970’s , William Julius Wilson published a book titled “the declining significance of race. by this he meant that class could be more significant than race in explaining the plight of lower-income African Americans. Before the 1970s, the racism of America society limited possibilities for black in all areas of American life. After the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, legal, political and social barriers began to fall down, but not completely. At the same time that this was occurring, a castle-like underclass was emerging within the black community that seemed resistant to improve by anti-discrimination efforts by political and social institutions, hence the work cited above. Reflecting on the three major problems reviewed in the current Wilson text, are they primarily problems of race, primarily of class or do both race and class contribute? Discuss.