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The New Black Middle Class

By: Bart Landry

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Paperback | 21 April 1987 | Edition Number 1

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264 Pages

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16+

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11+

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2.17 x 1.43 x 0.16

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Looks at the development of the Black American middle class, discusses salary, discrimination, and considers Black mobility, standards of living, and the effects of changing ecomomic conditions.

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"Landry has written a revealing book which provides an important antidote to the optimistic-sounding findings of the Civil Rights Commission."--Andrew Hacker, "The New York Review of Books

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Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Middle-Class Blacks and the American Dream	p. 1
The Old Black Middle Class: Dilemma of Race in a Class Society	p. 18
The New Black Middle Class: Has Race Been Eclipsed?	p. 67
Moving On Up: At Last a Piece of the Pie	p. 94
How Big a Piece?	p. 116
Life in the Middle: In Pursuit of the American Dream	p. 133
Consumption: Where, What, and How Much	p. 158
Life Style: And the Living Is Easy, or Is It?	p. 176
The New Black Middle Class in the 1980s: Checking Its Vital Signs	p. 193
Notes	p. 235
Index	p. 247
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