Title: Black Bourgeoisie
First published: 1957
Description: When it was first published in 19577, E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered - revered for its skillful dissection of one of America's most complex communities, reviled for daring to cast a critical eye on a section of black society that had achieved the trappings of the white, bourgeois ideal. The author traces the evolution of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the post-war boom in the integrated North, showing how, along the road to what seemed like prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks actually lost their roots to the traditional black world while never achieving acknowledgment from the white sector. The result, concluded Frazier, is an anomalous bourgeois class with no identity, built on self-sustaining myths of black business and society, silently undermined by a collective, debilitating inferiority complex. To read Black Bourgeooisie today is not only to experience one of the most important studies of African American life but also to realize how controversial and relevent Frazier's revelations and challenges remain. -- from back cover.
Subjects: Afro-Americans, Social conditions, Economic conditions, Middle class African Americans, Race relations, African Americans, Middle class, Noirs américains, Politica e sociedade (classe), Conditions sociales, Historia da america, Bourgeoisie, Relations raciales, Condicoes sociais, Classe social, African americans, social conditions, United states, social conditions, 1960-, United states, race relations, Middle class, united states, Middle classes, Black people
Places: United States, États-Unis
Time periods: To 1964, 1960-1980