Black Picket Fences
Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
By Mary Pattillo-McCoy
(University of Chicago Press, Paperback, 9780226649290, 283pp.)
Publication Date: November 2000
Categories: Discrimination & Racism, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
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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. After 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. In the face of arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.
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