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Author Pattillo, Mary E.

Title Black picket fences : privilege and peril among the Black middle class / Mary Pattillo-McCoy.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2000]
©2000

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.896 P321B    Check Shelf
Edition Paperback edition.
Description xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents The Black middle class : who, when, where? -- The making of Groveland -- Generations through a changing economy -- Neighborhood networks and crime -- Growing up in Groveland -- In a ghetto trance -- Nike's reign -- William "Spider" Waters, Jr. : straddling two worlds -- Typical Terry Jones.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index.
Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions.
African American youth -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Economic conditions.
Middle class -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations.
ISBN 0226649288 cloth
0226649296 paperback
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