num_pages: 302
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Blue-Chip Black
titlecomplete: Blue-Chip Black
genres: Anthropology, Social Science, The United States Of America, Nonfiction, Read For School, Sociology, Race, Class
ratings_count: 87
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award
publisher: University of California Press