Our kind of people
Subtitle: inside America's Black upper class
By: Lawrence Otis Graham
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780060183523
Subjects: Social life and customs; Race relations; African Americans; History; Elite (Social sciences); Social conditions; Oberschicht; Elite; Upper class
Description: "The first book written about the insular world of the black upper class by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group. A conservative network of families dating back to the first black millionaires of the 1880s, the black elite has developed its own rules for membership and for maintaining a place in a world that is unaware of its vast contributions."
Table of contents: title: The origins of the black upper class; title: Jack and Jill: where elite black kids are separated from the rest; title: The black child experience: the right cotillions, camps, and private schools; title: Howard, Spelman, and Morehouse: three colleges that count; title: The right fraternities and sororities; title: The links and the girl friends: for black women who govern society; title: The Boulé, the Guardsmen, and other groups for elite black men; title: Vacation spots for the black elite; title: Black elite in Chicago; title: Black elite in Washington, D.C.; title: Black elite in New York City; title: Black elite in Memphis; title: Black elite in Detroit; title: Black elite in Atlanta; title: Other cities for the black elite: Nashville, New Orleans, Tuskegee, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia; title: Passing for white: when the "brown paper bag test" isn't enough.