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eBook
Blue-Chip Black
2007
Overview
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 middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These \"blue-chip black\" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. Lacy examines the complicated 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.
Publisher
University of California Press
Subject
/ African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies
/ African Americans -- Race identity -- Washington Region
/ African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Case studies
/ African Americans -- Washington Region -- Social conditions
/ Blacks
/ Class
/ Middle class -- United States -- Case studies
/ Middle class -- Washington Region
/ Middle class African Americans
/ Social status -- United States -- Case studies
/ Social status -- Washington Region
/ U.S.A
/ United States -- Race relations -- Case studies
/ Washington Region -- Race relations
/ Workers
ISBN
9780520251151, 0520251156, 9780520251168, 0520251164, 0520940695, 9780520940697
