Title: The Black professional middle class : race, class, and community in the post-civil rights era /
Authors: Brown, Eric Semington.
Year: 2014
Subjects: Middle class African Americans Social conditions.; Middle class African Americans California Oakland Social conditions.; African Americans in the professions.; African Americans in the professions California Oakland.
Contents: The Black middle class: from the declining significance of race to racialized class formation -- The growth and transformation of the Black community in Oakland: 1852-1965 -- Swimming in the mainstream: racialized class formation and the Black professional middle class since the civil rights era -- Black to black: "traditional" professionals and segregated clientele -- The Black professional middle class and the Black community -- The Black professional middle class and racialized class politics: the rise, fall, and reprise of a Black urban regime in Oakland -- Conclusion: social policy and the Black professional middle class.