Product Overview
From Follett
Includes bibliographical references (page 247-260) and index.;The Black middle class : who, when, and where? -- The making of Groveland -- Generations through a changing economy -- Neighborhood networks and crime -- Growing up in Groveland -- In ghetto trance -- Nike's reign -- William "Spider" Waters, Jr. : straddling two worlds -- Typical Terri Jones. Describes the neighborhood-based social life of the African-American middle class, based on a study of Chicago's Groveland community, looking at how racial segregation, changing economic structures, and poverty affect the residential experience of African-American middle class families, and especially youth.
From the Publisher
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. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.
"An insightful look at the socio-economic experiences of the black middle class. . . . Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." Ebony
"A detailed and well-written account of one neighborhood's struggle to remain a haven of stability and prosperity in the midst of the cyclone that is the American economy." Emerge"