Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by Mary Pattillo-McCoy
On This Page
Description
"Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. After living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy writes, "I had seen three groups of eighth-graders graduate to high school, high school kids go on to college, and college graduates start their careers. I also heard too many stories and read too show more many obituaries of the teenagers who were jailed or killed along the way. The son of a police detective in jail for murder. The grandson of a teacher shot while visiting his girlfriend's house. The daughter of a park supervisor living with a drug dealer who would later be killed at a fast-food restaurant." Both troublesome and hopeful, these are the discontinuities in the daily life of Groveland residents that Pattillo-McCoy seeks to explain." "Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality: Even the black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal."--Jacket. show lessTags
Recommendations
Member Reviews
Ground breaking study, Chicago South Side. Advantages, boundaries, continuing inequality. UCB sp 14
Ratings
Members
- Recently Added By
Lists
Zora Canon
100 works; 6 members
The Zora Canon
98 works; 4 members
Author Information
3+ Works 219 Members
Mary Pattillo-McCoy is assistant professor of sociology and African American studies and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
Some Editions
Awards and Honors
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Classifications
- Genres
- Sociology, Nonfiction, Economics, General Nonfiction
- 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
- F548.9 .N4 .P38 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history Illinois
- BISAC
Statistics
- Members
- 135
- Popularity
- 240,606
- Reviews
- 1
- Rating
- (3.72)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 3
