Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
- ISBN-10
- 0226649296
- ISBN-13
- 9780226649290
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 276
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-11
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Authors
- Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Mary E. Pattillo
Description
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. "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 "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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