Book description
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Blue-Chip Black as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Similar to Black Pickett Fences, this was one of the first books I read as I sought to understand the unique position of the Black middle class.
Blue-Chip Black focuses on the social and economic complexity within the Black middle class and highlights how these experiences take shape in suburban neighborhoods. Most research on African Americans focuses on urban experiences.
Lacy shows that it is just as critical to understand distinctions among Black middle-class people as it is to understand differences between the Black middle class and African Americans with lower socio-economic status. Variation within the Black middle…
From Angela's list on how the Black middle class reveals the racial reality of the United States.
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