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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Karyn R. Lacy
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Description for Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Paperback. Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status. Num Pages: 302 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 3 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JFSC; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
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 individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other ... Read more
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 individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520251168
SKU
V9780520251168
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About Karyn R. Lacy
Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, a Ford Fellow, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
Reviews for Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
"An important contribution to research on the black middle-class... Rigorous analysis of black middle-class suburban identity." Journal Of Sociology "Offers a tremendously important contribution to scholarship on contemporary Black life and social class issues in America." Journal Of Marriage & Family