ISBN:
9781429482288
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1429482281
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9780520940697
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0520940695
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xx, 281 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
ACLS Humanites E-book
Parallel Title:
Print version Blue-chip Black
DDC:
305.8960730722
Keywords:
African Americans Case studies
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Social conditions
;
1975-
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African Americans Case studies
;
Race identity
;
Middle class Case studies
;
United States
;
Social status Case studies
;
United States
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
Washington Region
;
African Americans Race identity
;
Washington Region
;
Middle class Washington Region
;
Social status Washington Region
;
African Americans Case studies Race identity
;
Middle class Case studies
;
Social status Case studies
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
African Americans Race identity
;
Middle class
;
Social status
;
African Americans Case studies Social conditions 1975-
;
African Americans Social conditions
;
African Americans Race identity
;
Middle class
;
Social status
;
African Americans Case studies Social conditions 1975-
;
Social status Case studies
;
Middle class Case studies
;
African Americans Case studies Race identity
;
Middle class
;
Race relations
;
Social status
;
African Americans ; Race identity
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African Americans ; Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; African American Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Case studies
;
United States Case studies
;
Race relations
;
Washington Region Race relations
;
United States
;
Washington (D.C.) Region
;
United States Case studies Race relations
;
Washington Region Race relations
;
United States Case studies Race relations
;
Washington Region Race relations
;
United States
;
Washington (D.C.) Region
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books Case studies
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Electronic books
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Defining the post-integration black middle classesSocial 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.
Note:
"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index. - Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-268) and index
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