Black Picket Fences: Privilege & Peril among the Black Middle

Black Picket Fences: Privilege & Peril among the Black Middle Class

<div>First published in 1999, Mary Pattilloâ€™s <i>Black Picket Fences</i> explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in â€œGroveland,â€ a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicagoâ€™s South Side, <i>Black Picket Fences</i> explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.</div><br /><div><br /><br />Â Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. AlsoÂ included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.</div><br /><div>Â </div><br /><br />
Country USA
Manufacturer The University of Chicago Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-07-02
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The University of Chicago Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-07-02
Format	Kindle eBook

Black Picket Fences: Privilege & Peril among the Black Middle Class