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Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class and Status in the New Black Middle Class.
BLUE-CHIP BLACK: RACE, CLASS AND STATUS IN THE NEW BLACK MIDDLE CLASS
By Karyn R. Lacy
University of California Press, 281 pages
IN BLUE-CHIP BLACK, sociologist Karyn R. Lacy provides an enriching ethnography of Black middle-class families in three suburban communities in the Washington, D.C. area: Riverton, Lakeview and Sherwood Park. She examines the ways that the Black middle class constructs race and class-based identities vis-a-vis one another, whites and working-class and poor Blacks.
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Lacy argues that Black middle-class families in these towns have several ways of managing their identities while maintaining their status. She describes the process as "boundary work." For example, Blacks in Sherwood Park show their upper-middle-class status by valuing the fact ...
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