Black Picket Fences
Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
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"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. After living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy writes, "I had seen three groups of eighth-graders graduate to high school, high school kids go on to college, and college graduates start their careers.
I also heard too many stories and read too many obituaries of the teenagers who were jailed or killed along the way. The son of a police detective in jail for murder. The grandson of a teacher shot while visiting his girlfriend's house. The daughter of a park supervisor living with a drug dealer who would later be killed at a fast-food restaurant." Both troublesome and hopeful, these are the discontinuities in the daily life of Groveland residents that Pattillo-McCoy seeks to explain."--BOOK JACKET.
"Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality: Even the black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal."--BOOK JACKET.
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Race relations, Economic conditions, Middle class, Social conditions, African Americans, African American youth, Chicago (ill.), social conditions, African americans, economic conditions, Middle class, united states, United states, race relations, African americans, illinois, chicago, African americans, social conditions, Social sciences, Ethnic studies, Afro-American families, Middle class familiesPlaces
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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
November 1, 2000, University Of Chicago Press
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Black picket fences: privilege and peril among the Black middle class
1999, University of Chicago Press
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0226649288 9780226649283
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"There is a paucity of contemporary studies on the black middle class, making it necessary to define who belongs in the black middle class, when such a group emerged, and where many middle-class African American live."
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"There is a paucity of contemporary studies on the black middle class, making it necessary to define who belongs in the black middle class, when such a group emerged, and where many middle-class African American live."
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