The Black middle class : social mobility--and vulnerability

✍ Scribed by Benjamin P. Bowser

Publisher: Lynne Rienner
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 201
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Book Title
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Tables
5.1 Number and Percentage of Black and White Employed Workers 14 Years and Over Who Did White-Collar Work
6.1 Number and Percentage of Black and White Employed Workers 16 Years and Over Who Did White-Collar Work and Their Ratio
6.2 Black and White Average Income by Quartile, 1972–2000
6.3 Race, “Middle Class,” Families, Work, and Wealth, 1984
Figures
4.1 The System of Social Classes in Bronzeville
4.2 Black and White Classes Compared
5.1 Relationships Among Factors Influencing SES, Black and White Respondents
6.1 College Enrollment by Race, 1955–2002
6.2 Percentage, by Race, to Complete Four or More Years of College, 1974–2001
6.3 Mean Earnings of Bachelor’s Degree Holders by Race and Year
6.4 Mean Earnings of Advanced Degree Holders by Race and Year
7.1 Revised Black Social Class Hierarchy, 2005
1-Introduction
Not Like the White Middle Class
Organization of the Book
2-Putting Class in Context
Before the Commercial Revolution
Middle Functionaries as a Class
The Revolt and Birth of the Modern Middle Class
Definitions of Class
The World Systems Explanation
The Development of Class in the United States
3-The Emergence of a Black Middle Class
Race over Class
Slavery’s Impact on Class
Hierarchy Among Slaves
The Post–Civil War Social Hierarchy
The Reconstruction Black Middle Class
Lessons Learned
4-The Class That Jim Crow Built
Impacts of Oppression
Impact on Culture and Psyche
Arising Out of Nowhere
Black and White Classes Contrasted
Comparing Class by Race
In Retrospect
5-Comparability . . . Not
The Impact of World War II and Migration
The End of Jim Crow
Sudden Comparability
Obscuring Class Differences
The Road to Racial Class Comparability
What Is Missing in SES
Social Class Values
Implication of Missing Values in SES
Missing Factors Behind SES
Implications of Incomplete SES for Obscured Social Classes
Implications of Contemporary Studies
6-From Affirmative Action to Diversity
Origins of a New Black Middle Class
A Troubled Context for Progress
The Diversity Black Middle Class
7-Anatomy of Today’s Black Middle Class
Changes in Black Class Structure
Expansion of the Underclass
A New Social Division
Other Vulnerabilities
Lack of an Upper Class
Lessons for the Mainstream Middle Class
8-The Future of Race, Economic Inequality, and Class
Some Myths About the Black Middle Class
Black and White Future
Conclusion: A New Perspective on the Black Middle Class
Toward a Solution?
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Book

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