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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

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UPC:
9780226649290
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2000-11-01
Release Date:
2000-11-01
Author:
Mary Pattillo-McCoy
Language:
english
Edition:
1
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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. 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.