Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle ClassUniversity of Chicago Press, 2000 - 276 Seiten 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. "An insightful look at the socio-economic experiences of the black middle class. . . . Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." —Ebony "A detailed and well-written account of one neighborhood's struggle to remain a haven of stability and prosperity in the midst of the cyclone that is the American economy." —Emerge |
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Black Middle Class Who When and Where? | 13 |
The Making of Groveland | 31 |
Generations through a Changing Economy | 44 |
Neighborhood Networks and Crime | 68 |
Growing Up in Groveland | 91 |
In a Ghetto Trance | 117 |
Nikes Reign | 146 |
Typical Terri Jones | 186 |
CONCLUSION | 201 |
Research Method | 219 |
Groveland Neighborhood Characteristics | 226 |
Notes | 229 |
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William Spider Waters Jr Straddling Two Worlds | 167 |
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