9780226021195-022602119X-Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

ISBN-13: 9780226021195
ISBN-10: 022602119X
Edition: Second
Author: Mary Pattillo
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226021195
ISBN-10: 022602119X
Edition: Second
Author: Mary Pattillo
Publication date: 2013
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 352 pages

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Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (ISBN-13: 9780226021195 and ISBN-10: 022602119X), written by authors Mary Pattillo, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2013. With an overall rating of 4.1 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional, Urban, Sociology, Class) books. You can easily purchase or rent Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.


Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.


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