Blue-chip Black : Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / Karyn Lacy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lacy, Karyn R., 1965-

Series:

George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Social conditions--1975---Case studies.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity--Case studies.

Middle class--United States--Case studies.

Middle class.

Social status--United States--Case studies.

Social status.

African Americans--Washington Region--Social conditions.

African Americans--Race identity--Washington Region.

Middle class--Washington Region.

Social status--Washington Region.

United States--Race relations--Case studies.

United States.

Washington Region--Race relations.

Washington Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Defining the Post-Integration Black Middle Classes

2. Social Organization in Washington's Suburbia

3. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces

4. Status-Based Identities: Protecting and Reproducing Middle-Class Status

5. Race- and Class-Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia

6. Suburban Identities: Building Alliances with Neighbors

Conclusion

Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the Black Middle Class

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612772184

9781282772182

128277218X

9780520251151

0520251156

9781429482288

1429482281

9780520940697

0520940695

9781433708565

1433708566

OCLC:

163586670