Blue-Chip Black
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A01=Karyn Lacy
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african american culture
american culture
american studies
anthropology
assimilation
Author_Karyn Lacy
Author_Karyn R. Lacy
black middle class
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cultural studies
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identity
lower middle class
middle class
middle class status
middle class suburbs
middle middle class
politics
post integration
public identity
public spaces
race
race and class
race in america
race studies
social class issues
social organization
sociology
suburbanites
united states of america
upper middle class
washington dc
Product details
- ISBN 9780520251168
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2007
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 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.
Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology and the Center for Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, a Ford Fellow, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
