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
Summary
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 benefits of their middle-class status
Notes
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Preliminary page
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index