Introduction: rewriting the rules of racial inequality -- American politics and economic outcomes for African Americans: a brief historical overview -- Stratification economics: a general theory of intergroup inequality -- Creating structural changes: the role of targeted universalism -- The...

Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and present to show that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. - Jacket

"In this intellectual history of the fraught relationship between race and poverty in the 1960s, Liberalism is not enough offers a sustained critique of the fundamental assumptions that structured thought and action on the postwar American left. Focusing on the figures associated with 'Great...