The Black middle class : social mobility--and vulnerability

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