Choice
Wilson is knowledgeable and insightful.
Economic Geography
A powerful addition to academic fields as varied as southern studies and Marxian critical theory. Wilson has written a book of uncommon depth. His melding of critical race theory, Marxian critique, and regional analysis is effective and engrossing. Wilson's work is fascinating and well-written.
Ethnic and Racial Studies
America's Johannesburg is comprehensive, theoretically-driven, and convincing. America's Johannesburg contributes to the fields of urban studies, geography, and historical sociology by providing a case example of how racial oppression manifests itself in historically and geographically contingent ways. The text will be useful to scholars interested in the micro and macro processes that institutionalized and organized racial inequality in the U.S. southern economy.
Labor History
Merits attention since it poses a direct challenge to the ongoing celebration of difference that pervades our field. . . . A creditable job of summarizing the work of recent leftist scholars who critique postmodernist/poststructuralist fashion.
The Alabama Review
This book is destined to make the 'required reading list' on Alabama history.
Urban Studies
These two books [America's Johannesburg and Race and Place in Birmingham by Bobby M. Wilson] are extremely important and every urban scholar should read them. Most significant, Wilson has constructed a theoretical and conceptual framework that can be used to study the Black experience across time, as well as at specific moments in time.
