A MacArthur Prize Fellow and the recipient of the 1998 National Medal of Science, William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of Power, Racism, and Privilege; The Declining Significance of Race; The Truly Disadvantaged; When Work Disappears; and The Bridge Over the Racial Divide. His new book, There Goes the Neighborhood, is informed by his current studies of race and the social organization of neighborhoods, the effects of high-risk neighborhoods on adolescent social outcomes, and the effects of welfare reform on poor families and children.