Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

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Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid have a look at a section of The united states that may be too ceaselessly ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The results of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the benefits and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Regardless of arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.

“An insightful have a look at the socio-economic experiences of the black middle class. . . . Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the writer shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face versus middle-class whites.” —Ebony

“A detailed and well-written account of one neighborhood’s struggle to remain a haven of stability and prosperity in the course of the cyclone that may be the American economy.” —Emerge

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