num_pages: 283
description: 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.
language: English
title: Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
titlecomplete: Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
genres: History, Education, Sociology, Race, American History, Economics, African American, School, Nonfiction, Anthropology
ratings_count: 287
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
publisher: University of Chicago Press