Item Tag: 1997

Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Title:Black BourgeoisieISBN13:9780684832418ISBN10:0684832410Author:Frazier, Franklin (Author)Description:A Classic Analysis Of The Black Middle Class Studies Its Origin And Development, Accentuating Its Behavior, Attitudes, And Values During The 1940S And 1950S When It Was First Published In 1957, E Franklin Frazier’s Black Bourgeoisie Was Simultaneously Reviled And Revered–Revered For Its Skillful Dissection Of One Of America’s Most Complex Communities, Reviled For Daring To Cast A Critical Eye On A Section Of Black Society That Had Achieved The Trappings Of The White, Bourgeois Ideal The Author Traces The Evolution Of This Enigmatic Class From The Segregated South To The Post-War Boom In The Integrated North, Showing How, Along The Road To What Seemed Like Prosperity And Progress, Middle-Class Blacks Actually Lost Their Roots To The Traditional Black World While Never Achieving Acknowledgment From The White Sector The Result, Concluded Frazier, Is An Anomalous Bourgeois Class With No Identity, Built On Self-Sustaining Myths Of Black Business And Society, Silently Undermined By A Collective, Debilitating Inferiority Complex Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:FREE PRPublication Date:1997-02-13Weight:0.56 lbsDimensions:0.76” H x 8.46” L x 5.5” WNumber of Pages:272Language:English