Rising middle-class Blacks still faced intensifying discrimination in the 1970s.

Evidence

Wilson did not acknowledge the racial progress for some and the progression of racism for all. As Wilson’s antiracist critics pointed out, he neglected the evidence showing the rising discrimination faced by rising middle-income Blacks—a point Michael Harrington’s The Other America had already made in 1962. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1069

Categorization

• XREF: This is the empirical counterevidence that tests Wilson’s class-over-race thesis — exactly the kind of case the reader wants to run against Kendi’s inversion and the three-way scheme. — connects to: Residential segregation by race persisted independent of class and education through 1970 — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology: Key Readings, 3348
• QUESTION: If discrimination against the rising Black middle class was already documented in 1962 (The Other America), why did Wilson’s class thesis dominate sociology’s imagination in the late 1970s? That’s a question worth chasing.