Blue-chip Black [[electronic resource] ] : Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / / Karyn Lacy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784420703321
• Autore: Lacy Karyn R. <1965->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-282-77218-X; 9786612772184; 0-520-25115-6; 1-4294-8228-1; 0-520-94069-5; 1-4337-0856-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Collana: George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies
• Disciplina: 305.896/0730722
• Soggetti: African Americans - Social conditions - 1975-; African Americans - Race identity; Middle class - United States; Social status - United States; African Americans - Washington Region - Social conditions; African Americans - Race identity - Washington Region; Middle class - Washington Region; Social status - Washington Region; United States Race relations Case studies; Washington Region Race relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Defining the Post-Integration Black Middle Classes -- 2. Social Organization in Washington's Suburbia -- 3. Public Identities: Managing Race in Public Spaces -- 4. Status-Based Identities: Protecting and Reproducing Middle-Class Status -- 5. Race- and Class-Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia -- 6. Suburban Identities: Building Alliances with Neighbors -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Recipe for Studying the ; Black Middle Class -- Notes -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.