Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the Black middle class /
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| Author / Creator: | Pattillo, Mary E. |
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| Edition: | Pbk. ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000, c1999. |
| Description: | xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7904622 |
| Summary: | Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.<br> <br> "An insightful look at the socio-economic experiences of the black middle class. . . . Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." -- Ebony <br> <br> "A detailed and well-written account of one neighborhood's struggle to remain a haven of stability and prosperity in the midst of the cyclone that is the American economy." -- Emerge |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226649288 9780226649283 0226649296 9780226649290 |