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Black Picket Fences - Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (Hardcover, 2nd)
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Black Picket Fences - Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (Hardcover, 2nd)
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After living for three years in "Groveland", a black middle-class
neighbourhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary
Pattillo-McCoy sought to explain the discontinuities in their daily
life, both troublesome and hopeful, she witnessed. Residents work
in stable middle-class jobs and many have single-family homes with
a backyard and a two-car garage. Some send their children to
private schools and are able to retire with solid pensions. Yet
despite such privileges, Pattillo-McCoy argues, they face unique
perils. Continuing inequities in wealth and occupational attainment
make these families economically fragile. Racial segregation
confines many middle-class African Americans to neighbourhoods with
higher poverty rates, more crime, fewer resources, less political
clout, and worse schools than most white neighbourhoods. Finally,
youths are targets of and participate in a popular consumer culture
that romanticizes the hard life of poverty. Despite arguments that
race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality:
even the black and white middle classes remain separate and
unequal.
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