by Bart Landry
Rutgers University Press, 2018
Paper: 978-0-8135-9397-5 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-9398-2
Library of Congress Classification E185.86.L3526 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.5508996073

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.