Black Picket Fences 
Subtitle: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780226649290
Subjects: Racism & racial discrimination; Social classes; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Multicultural Nonfiction; Illinois; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations
First sentence: There is a paucity of contemporary studies on the black middle class, making it necessary to define who belongs in the black middle class, when such a group emerged, and where many middle-class African American live.