The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century / Bart Landry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landry, Bart, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.

Middle class African Americans.

African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.

African Americans.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century

2. Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class

3. Changing Neighborhoods

4. Pick Up the Newspaper; We're Out of Town

5. Catch-22

6. Educating the New Black Middle Class

7. From School to Work

8. Income and Wealth

9. The Next Generation

Afterword. 2007 to the Present

Conclusion

Appendix

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780813593982

0813593980

9780813594002

0813594006

OCLC:

1082979949