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Author Lacy, Karyn R., 1965- author

Title Blue-chip Black : race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / Karyn R. Lacy
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 281 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanites E-book
ACLS Humanities E-Book
Contents 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
Notes Print version record
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Case studies
African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies
Middle class -- United States -- Case studies
Social status -- United States -- Case studies
African Americans -- Washington Region -- Social conditions
African Americans -- Race identity -- Washington Region
Middle class -- Washington Region
Social status -- Washington Region
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
African Americans -- Race identity
African Americans -- Social conditions
Middle class
Race relations
Social status
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Washington Region -- Race relations
Subject United States
Washington (D.C.) Region
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2006025496
ISBN 9780520940697
0520940695
9781429482288
1429482281
1433708566
9781433708565