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
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover
Categories: Discrimination & Racism, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General
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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.
Mary Pattillo-McCoy is an assistant professor of sociology and African American studies and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
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