ISBN:
9781588264558
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (199 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Black Middle Class : Social Mobility--and Vulnerability
DDC:
305.55089960
Keywords:
Electronic books
Description / Table of Contents:
""Book Title""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Tables and Figures""; ""Tables""; ""5.1 Number and Percentage of Black and White Employed Workers 14 Years and Over Who Did White-Collar Work""; ""6.1 Number and Percentage of Black and White Employed Workers 16 Years and Over Who Did White-Collar Work and Their Ratio""; ""6.2 Black and White Average Income by Quartile, 1972�2000""; ""6.3 Race, “Middle Class,� Families, Work, and Wealth, 1984""; ""Figures""; ""4.1 The System of Social Classes in Bronzeville""; ""4.2 Black and White Classes Compared""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5.1 Relationships Among Factors Influencing SES, Black and White Respondents""""6.1 College Enrollment by Race, 1955�2002""; ""6.2 Percentage, by Race, to Complete Four or More Years of College, 1974�2001""; ""6.3 Mean Earnings of Bachelor�s Degree Holders by Race and Year""; ""6.4 Mean Earnings of Advanced Degree Holders by Race and Year""; ""7.1 Revised Black Social Class Hierarchy, 2005""; ""1-Introduction""; ""Not Like the White Middle Class""; ""Organization of the Book""; ""2-Putting Class in Context""; ""Before the Commercial Revolution""; ""Middle Functionaries as a Class""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Revolt and Birth of the Modern Middle Class""""Definitions of Class""; ""The World Systems Explanation""; ""The Development of Class in the United States""; ""3-The Emergence of a Black Middle Class""; ""Race over Class""; ""Slavery�s Impact on Class""; ""Hierarchy Among Slaves""; ""The Post�Civil War Social Hierarchy""; ""The Reconstruction Black Middle Class""; ""Lessons Learned""; ""4-The Class That Jim Crow Built""; ""Impacts of Oppression""; ""Impact on Culture and Psyche""; ""Arising Out of Nowhere""; ""Black and White Classes Contrasted""; ""Comparing Class by Race""
Description / Table of Contents:
""In Retrospect""""5-Comparability . . . Not""; ""The Impact of World War II and Migration""; ""The End of Jim Crow""; ""Sudden Comparability""; ""Obscuring Class Differences""; ""The Road to Racial Class Comparability""; ""What Is Missing in SES""; ""Social Class Values""; ""Implication of Missing Values in SES""; ""Missing Factors Behind SES""; ""Implications of Incomplete SES for Obscured Social Classes""; ""Implications of Contemporary Studies""; ""6-From Affirmative Action to Diversity""; ""Origins of a New Black Middle Class""; ""A Troubled Context for Progress""
Description / Table of Contents:
""The Diversity Black Middle Class""""7-Anatomy of Today�s Black Middle Class""; ""Changes in Black Class Structure""; ""Expansion of the Underclass""; ""A New Social Division""; ""Other Vulnerabilities""; ""Lack of an Upper Class""; ""Lessons for the Mainstream Middle Class""; ""8-The Future of Race, Economic Inequality, and Class""; ""Some Myths About the Black Middle Class""; ""Black and White Future""; ""Conclusion: A New Perspective on the Black Middle Class""; ""Toward a Solution?""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Book""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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