Even elite scholars confess that race and class must be addressed jointly

Evidence

On the thirty-third anniversary of The Declining Significance of Race, when scholars were once again pitting class over race to explain racial inequities, Wilson did what only the best scholars have found the courage to do: he admitted the book’s shortcomings and confessed that he should have advanced “both raceand class-based solutions to address life chances for people of color.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1071

Categorization

• SEED: A potential essay angle: what a scholarly ‘retraction’ culture could look like in the social sciences — Wilson recanting his own landmark work as a model.