Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the Black middle class / Mary Pattillo-McCoy.
"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. After living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy w...
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Language: | English |
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Chicago :
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1999.
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Physical Description: | xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Format: | Book |
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"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. After living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy writes, "I had seen three groups of eighth-graders graduate to high school, high school kids go on to college, and college graduates start their careers. I also heard too many stories and read too many obituaries of the teenagers who were jailed or killed along the way. The son of a police detective in jail for murder. The grandson of a teacher shot while visiting his girlfriend's house. The daughter of a park supervisor living with a drug dealer who would later be killed at a fast-food restaurant." Both troublesome and hopeful, these are the discontinuities in the daily life of Groveland residents that Pattillo-McCoy seeks to explain." "Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality: Even the black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Call Number: | F548.9.N4 P38 1999 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780226649283 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226649288 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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