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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class

Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class

Lacy, Karyn

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Biographies GeneralAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0520251164
ISBN13: 9780520251168
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Jul 3 2007
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.89
Language: English
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.

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