Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the Black middle class / Mary Pattillo-McCoy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pattillo, Mary E.
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000], ©2000.
Edition:Paperback edition.
Subjects:
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions.
African American youth > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Economic conditions.
Middle class > Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations.
Physical Description:xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The black middle class: who, when, and where?
  • The making of Groveland
  • Generations through a changing economy
  • Neighborhood networks and crime
  • Growing up in Groveland
  • In a ghetto trance
  • Nike's reign
  • William "Spider" Waters, Jr.: straddling two worlds
  • Typical Terri Jones.