The Black middle class
Subtitle: social mobility - and vulnerability
By: Benjamin P. Bowser.
Publisher: Lynne Rienner
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boulder, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781588264558
Subjects: African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; African Americans -- Economic conditions; Middle class -- United States; Social classes -- United States; Social mobility -- United States; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1945-; United States -- Race relations
Description: "The widespread presence of successful African Americans in virtually all walks of life has led many in the United States to believe that the races are now on an equal footing - and that color blindness is the most appropriate way to deal with racial difference. In strong contrast, Benjamin Bowser argues that the seemingly comparable black and white middle classes, even though inextricably linked, in fact exist on entirely different economic planes."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Putting class in context; title: The emergence of the Black middle class; title: The class that Jim Crow built; title: Comparability...not; title: From affirmative action to diversity; title: Anatomy of today's Black middle class; title: The future of race, economic inequality, and class.