04589nam 2200985Ia 450 991097070350332120200520144314.097866127721849781282772182128277218X9780520251151052025115697814294822881429482281978052094069705209406959781433708565143370856610.1525/9780520940697(CKB)1000000000354327(EBL)301113(SSID)ssj0000113384(PQKBManifestationID)11828155(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113384(PQKBWorkID)10099210(PQKB)11100770(DE-B1597)521031(OCoLC)163586670(DE-B1597)9780520940697(Au-PeEL)EBL301113(CaPaEBR)ebr10178200(CaONFJC)MIL277218(OCoLC)476080510(dli)HEB33190(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000786(Perlego)552469(MiAaPQ)EBC301113(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000786(EXLCZ)99100000000035432720060807d2007 ub 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrBlue-chip Black Race, class, and status in the new Black middle class /Karyn Lacy1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20071 online resource (303 p.)George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American StudiesDescription based upon print version of record.9780520251168 0520251164 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 --IndexAs 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.George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American StudiesRace, class, and status in the new Black middle classAfrican AmericansSocial conditions1975-Case studiesAfrican AmericansRace identityCase studiesMiddle classUnited StatesCase studiesSocial statusUnited StatesCase studiesAfrican AmericansWashington RegionSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansRace identityWashington RegionMiddle classWashington RegionSocial statusWashington RegionUnited StatesRace relationsCase studiesWashington RegionRace relationsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansRace identityMiddle classSocial statusAfrican AmericansSocial conditions.African AmericansRace identityMiddle classSocial status305.896/0730722Lacy Karyn R.1965-792391MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970703503321Blue-chip Black1771822UNINA