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Blue-chip Black : race, class, and status in the new Black middle class /

Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the 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 benefi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lacy, Karyn R., 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
Colección:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Defining the post-integration black middle classes
  • Social organization in Washington's suburbia
  • Public identities : managing race in public spaces
  • Status-based identities : protecting and reproducing middle-class status
  • Race- and class-based identities : strategic assimilation in middle-class suburbia
  • Suburban identities : building alliances with neighbors.