Format:
Online-Ressource (xx, 281 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520251168
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0520251156
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0520251164
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9780520251151
Series Statement:
George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
Content:
As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated sense of identity that individ
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Defining the Post-Integration Black Middle Classes; 2 Social Organization in Washington's Suburbia; 3 Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces; 4 Status-Based Identities: Protecting and Reproducing Middle-Class Status; 5 Race- and Class-Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia; 6 Suburban Identities: Building Alliances with Neighbors; Conclusion; Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the Black Middle Class; Notes; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520251168
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blue-Chip Black : Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
