Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States
by E. Franklin Frazier
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A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s. When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered--revered for its skillful dissection of one of America's most complex communities, reviled for daring to cast a critical eye on a section of black society that had achieved the trappings of the white, bourgeois ideal. The show more author traces the evolution of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the post-war boom in the integrated North, showing how, along the road to what seemed like prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks actually lost their roots to the traditional black world while never achieving acknowledgment from the white sector. The result, concluded Frazier, is an anomalous bourgeois class with no identity, built on self-sustaining myths of black business and society, silently undermined by a collective, debilitating inferiority complex. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States
- Original publication date
- 1957
- Important places
- USA
- Important events
- African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 305.896073
- Canonical LCC
- E185.86 .F72813
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- Genres
- Sociology, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896073 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Ethnic and national groups Other ethnic and national groups Africans and people of African descent; Blacks of African origin standard subdivisions / located in North America African Americans {United States Blacks}
- LCC
- E185.86 .F72813 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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- 256
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 9
