Title Blue-chip Black : race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / Karyn R. Lacy.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xx, 281 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Preliminary page.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-268) and index.
Contents	Defining the post-integration black middle classes -- Social organization in Washington's suburbia -- Public identities : managing race in public spaces -- Status-based identities : protecting and reproducing middle-class status -- Race- and class-based identities : strategic assimilation in middle-class suburbia -- Suburban identities : building alliances with neighbors.
Summary	Explores middle-class blacks who live in suburbs where poor blacks are not present. This book examines the sense of identity that individuals in these groups craft to manage their interactions with lower-class blacks, middle-class whites, and other middle-class blacks as they seek to reap the benefits of their middle-class status.
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Subject	African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- -- Case studies.
	African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term	1975-
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	African Americans -- Race identity -- Case studies.
	African Americans -- Race identity.
	Middle class -- United States -- Case studies.
	Middle class.
	United States.
	Social status -- United States -- Case studies.
	Social status.
	United States -- Race relations -- Case studies.
	Race relations.
	African Americans -- Washington Region -- Social conditions.
	African Americans.
	Social conditions.
	African Americans -- Race identity -- Washington Region.
	Middle class -- Washington Region.
	Social status -- Washington Region.
	Washington Region -- Race relations.
Chronological Term	Since 1975
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Lacy, Karyn R., 1965- Blue-chip Black. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2007 9780520251151 0520251156 (DLC) 2006025496 (OCoLC)71004064
ISBN	9780520940697 (electronic book)
	0520940695 (electronic book)
	9781429482288 (electronic book)
	1429482281 (electronic book)
	1433708566
	9781433708565
	9780520251151 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0520251156 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	9780520251168 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
	0520251164 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Title Blue-chip Black : race, class, and status in the new Black middle class / Karyn R. Lacy.

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