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The Cosby Cohort - Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Hardcover)
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The Cosby Cohort - Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial America
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The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second
generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces
during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their
journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced
in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures
placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by
their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of
other classes, and the impact that all of these experiences had on
their adult racial identities. At young ages, this generation of
middle class Blacks, whom Harris coins as the Cosby Cohort, was
faced with racial displacement, frustration, and the ever-present
pressure to emerge victorious against the pull of downward
mobility. Even in adulthood, they continue to negotiate the
tensions between upward mobility and maintaining ties to the larger
Black community and culture. While these young Blacks may have
grown up watching The Cosby Show, as the book reveals, their
stories indicate a much more complex reality than portrayed by the
show.
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