Carter A. Wilson is a professor and director of the Master of Public Administration program in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at The University of Toledo. He earned his Ph.D. in political from Wayne State University in 1982. He has published several articles in scholarly journals including Administration and Society, the Journal of Public Policy, Urban Affairs Quarterly, the Urban Education Review and many others. He is the author of Racism from Slavery to Advanced Capitalism and a contributing author to Bryan Jones and Lynn Bachelor's book, The Sustaining Hand.