Our Kind of People
Subtitle: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780060984380
Subjects: Black studies; Social classes; United States; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Wealth; Social Science; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; Social Science / African-American Studies; Afro-Americans; Upper class; 1975-; 20th century; History; Social conditions; Social life and customs
First sentence: All my life, for as long as I can remember, I grew up thinking that there existed only two types of black people: those who passed the "brown paper bag and ruler test" and those who didn't.