Exploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid
economically privileged lives At a moment in U.S. history with
repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to
state and extralegal violence, Black Bourgeois is the first book to
consider the contradiction of privileged, presumably protected
black bodies that nonetheless remain racially vulnerable. Examining
disruptions around race and class status in literary texts, Candice
M. Jenkins reminds us that the conflicted relation of the black
subject to privilege is not, solely, a recent phenomenon. Focusing
on works by Toni Morrison, Spike Lee, Danzy Senna, Rebecca Walker,
Reginald McKnight, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead, and Michael
Thomas, Jenkins shows that the seemingly abrupt discursive shift
from post-Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, from an emphasis on
privilege and progress to an emphasis on vulnerability and
precariousness, suggests a pendulum swing between two interrelated
positions still in tension. By analyzing how these narratives stage
the fraught interaction between the black and the bourgeois,
Jenkins offers renewed attention to class as a framework for the
study of black life-a necessary shift in an age of rapidly
increasing income inequality and societal stratification. Black
Bourgeois thus challenges the assumed link between blackness and
poverty that has become so ingrained in the United States,
reminding us that privileged subjects, too, are "classed." This
book offers, finally, a rigorous and nuanced grasp of how African
Americans live within complex, intersecting identities.
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