The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century / / Bart Landry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Landry, Bart,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century -- 2. Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class -- 3. Changing Neighborhoods -- 4. Pick Up the Newspaper; We’re Out of Town -- 5. Catch-22 -- 6. Educating the New Black Middle Class -- 7. From School to Work -- 8. Income and Wealth -- 9. The Next Generation -- Afterword. 2007 to the Present -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index