The Black elite
Subtitle: still facing the color line in the twenty-first century
By: Lois Benjamin.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; African Americans -- Race identity; Race awareness -- United States; Racism -- United States; Elite (Social sciences) -- United States; African Americans -- Interviews; Successful people -- United States -- Interviews; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "Using in-depth interviews of high-achieving African Americans who came of age both before and after the civil rights era, The Black Elite documents that race still matters in the twenty-first century. Lois Benjamin describes how African Americans grapple on a daily basis with what W.E.B. Du Bois called the double consciousness: living within and between two worlds. A new chapter details how the post-civil rights generation interprets and navigates racial terrain differently than the civil rights generation, a fact that has significant implications for group identity and group mobility."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-303) and index.