Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
by Karyn R. Lacy
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Karyn R. Lacy is Assistant Professor in both the Department of Sociology and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan
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- Prince George's County, Maryland, USA; Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
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- Anthropology, Sociology, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 305.896 — 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
- LCC
- E185.86 .L325 — History of the United States United States Elements in the population Afro-Americans Status and development since emancipation
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- English
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