Black Bourgeoisie

Name: Black Bourgeoisie
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ISBN: 9780684832418

ISBN-10: 0684832410

ISBN-13: 9780684832418

Edition: 1997

Authors: Franklin Frazier

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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,…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 2/13/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.44" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Roots of the Black Bourgeoisie



The Economic Basis of Middle-Class Status



Education of the Black Bourgeoisie



Power and Political Orientation



Break with the Traditional Background



Inferiority Complex and Quest for Status



Negro Business: A Social Myth



The Negro Press and Wish-Fulfillment



"Society": Status without Substance



Behind the Masks


Conclusion


Notes


Index of Names


Index of Subjects