Black Picket Fences

Author : Mary Pattillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226021225

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Black Picket Fences by Mary Pattillo Pdf

First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo’s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres. The result of living for three years in “Groveland,” a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black middle class has and the boundaries they still face. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo showed a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal. Stark, moving, and still timely, the book is updated for this edition with a new epilogue by the author that details how the neighborhood and its residents fared in the recession of 2008, as well as new interviews with many of the same neighborhood residents featured in the original. Also included is a new foreword by acclaimed University of Pennsylvania sociologist Annette Lareau.

Author : Amy Julia Becker
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781631469220

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White Picket Fences by Amy Julia Becker Pdf

A Gentle Invitation into the Challenging Topic of Privilege The notion that some might have it better than others, for no good reason, offends our sensibilities. Yet, until we talk about privilege, we’ll never fully understand it or find our way forward. Amy Julia Becker welcomes us into her life, from the charm of her privileged southern childhood to her adult experience in the northeast, and the denials she has faced as the mother of a child with special needs. She shows how a life behind a white picket fence can restrict even as it protects, and how it can prevent us from loving our neighbors well. White Picket Fences invites us to respond to privilege with generosity, humility, and hope. It opens us to questions we are afraid to ask, so that we can walk further from fear and closer to love, in all its fragile and mysterious possibilities.

Author : Sarah Mayorga-Gallo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781469618630

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Behind the White Picket Fence by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo Pdf

Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood

Author : Mary Pattillo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226649337

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Black on the Block by Mary Pattillo Pdf

In Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo—a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century—uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago’s North Kenwood–Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. There was a time when North Kenwood–Oakland was plagued by gangs, drugs, violence, and the font of poverty from which they sprang. But in the late 1980s, activists rose up to tackle the social problems that had plagued the area for decades. Black on the Block tells the remarkable story of how these residents laid the groundwork for a revitalized and self-consciously black neighborhood that continues to flourish today. But theirs is not a tale of easy consensus and political unity, and here Pattillo teases out the divergent class interests that have come to define black communities like North Kenwood–Oakland. She explores the often heated battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers as they clash over the social implications of gentrification. Along the way, Pattillo highlights the conflicted but crucial role that middle-class blacks play in transforming such districts as they negotiate between established centers of white economic and political power and the needs of their less fortunate black neighbors. “A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one.”—Chicago Reader “To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows . . . turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block.”—Boston Globe

Author : David Grusky,Jasmine Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429968372

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Inequality in the 21st Century by David Grusky,Jasmine Hill Pdf

This book provides selections from the seminal works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman that reveal some of the reasons why class, race, and gender inequalities have proven very adaptive and can flourish even today in the 21st century.

Author : Karyn R. Lacy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520251168

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Blue-Chip Black by Karyn R. Lacy Pdf

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Author : Michael Datcher
Publisher : Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1573223301

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Raising Fences by Michael Datcher Pdf

Relating his fatherless childhood in inner-city Los Angeles, a poet and journalist describes his yearning, and that of other African American men, to escape this destructive cycle to achieve personal security and happiness.

Author : Diana Lind
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781541742642

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Brave New Home by Diana Lind Pdf

This smart, provocative look at how the American Dream of single-family homes, white picket fences, and two-car garages became a lonely, overpriced nightmare explores how new trends in housing can help us live better. Over the past century, American demographics and social norms have shifted dramatically. More people are living alone, marrying later in life, and having smaller families. At the same time, their lifestyles are changing, whether by choice or by force, to become more virtual, more mobile, and less stable. But despite the ways that today's America is different and more diverse, housing still looks stuck in the 1950s. In Brave New Home, Diana Lind shows why a country full of single-family houses is bad for us and our planet, and details the new efforts underway that better reflect the way we live now, to ensure that the way we live next is both less lonely and more affordable. Lind takes readers into the homes and communities that are seeking alternatives to the American norm, from multi-generational living, in-law suites, and co-living to microapartments, tiny houses, and new rural communities. Drawing on Lind's expertise and the stories of Americans caught in or forging their own paths outside of our cookie-cutter housing trap, Brave New Home offers a diagnosis of the current American housing crisis and a radical re-imagining of future possibilities.

Author : Bruce D. Haynes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300129861

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Red Lines, Black Spaces by Bruce D. Haynes Pdf

Runyon Heights, a community in Yonkers, New York, has been populated by middle-class African Americans for nearly a century. This book—the first history of a black middle-class community—tells the story of Runyon Heights, which sheds light on the process of black suburbanization and the ways in which residential development in the suburbs has been shaped by race and class. Relying on both interviews with residents and archival research, Bruce D. Haynes describes the progressive stages in the life of the community and its inhabitants and the factors that enabled it to form in the first place and to develop solidarity, identity and political consciousness. He shows how residents came to recognize common political interests within the community, how racial consciousness provided an axis for social solidarity as well as partial insulation from racial slights, and how the suburb afforded these middle-class residents a degree of physical and social distance from the ghetto. As Haynes explores the history of Runyon Heights, we learn the ways in which its black middle class dealt with the tensions between the political interests of race and the material interests of class.

Author : Mary E. Pattillo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African American youth
ISBN : OCLC:1028857950

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Black Picket Fences by Mary E. Pattillo Pdf

Author : Clay McLeod Chapman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683692157

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Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman Pdf

“A diabolically creepy hybrid of horror and psychological suspense that thrills as much as it unsettles. You’ll keep turning the pages even as your hands shake.”—Riley Sager, New York Times best-selling author of Home Before Dark A pulse-pounding, true-crime-based horror novel inspired by the McMartin preschool trial and Satanic Panic of the ’80s. Richard doesn’t have a past. For him, there is only the present: a new marriage, a first chance at fatherhood, and a quiet life as an art teacher in Virginia. Then the body of a ritualistically murdered rabbit appears on his school’s playground, along with a birthday card for him. But Richard hasn’t celebrated his birthday since he was known as Sean . . . In the 1980s, Sean was five years old when his mother unwittingly led him to tell a lie about his teacher. When school administrators, cops, and therapists questioned him, he told another. And another. And another. Each was more outlandish than the last—and fueled a moral panic that engulfed the nation and destroyed the lives of everyone around him. Now, thirty years later, someone is here to tell Richard that they know what Sean did. But who would even know that these two are one and the same? Whisper Down the Lane is a tense and compulsively readable exploration of a world primed by paranoia to believe the unbelievable.

Author : Jenny Hval
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781788738972

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Girls Against God by Jenny Hval Pdf

A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto for fans of Clarice Lispector and Jeanette Winterson. Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A time-travelling Edvard Munch arrives in town to join a death metal band, closely pursued by the teenaged subject of his painting Puberty, who has murder on her mind. Meanwhile, out deep in the forest, a group of school girls get very lost and things get very strange. And awful things happen in aspic. Jenny Hval's latest novel is a radical fusion of queer feminist theory and experimental horror, and a unique treatise on magic, writing and art. "Strange and lyrical. Hval’s writing is surreal and rich with the grotesque banalities of human existence." —Publishers Weekly "The themes of alienation, queerness, and the unsettling nature of desire align Hval with modern mainstays like Chris Kraus, Ottessa Moshfegh, and Maggie Nelson." —Pitchfork

Author : Thomas Chatterton Williams
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393608878

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Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race by Thomas Chatterton Williams Pdf

A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family’s multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. This was so fundamental to his self-conception that he’d never rigorously reflected on its foundations—but the shock of his experience as the black father of two extremely white-looking children led him to question these long-held convictions. It is not that he has come to believe that he is no longer black or that his kids are white, Williams notes. It is that these categories cannot adequately capture either of them—or anyone else, for that matter. Beautifully written and bound to upset received opinions on race, Self-Portrait in Black and White is an urgent work for our time.

Author : Bart Landry
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813593975

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The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century by Bart Landry Pdf

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.

Author : Richard L. Zweigenhaft,G. William Domhoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780585466699

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Blacks in the White Elite by Richard L. Zweigenhaft,G. William Domhoff Pdf

This extensively revised edition of Blacks in the White Establishment? adds fifteen years to the life stories of the African Americans whose opportunities were dramatically changed by a nationally prominent educational opportunity program that provided scholarships for disadvantaged people of color to attend the same elite boarding schools that educate the children of wealthy white Americans. Beyond tracing the individuals into middle age, and expanding coverage of their careers, with special attention to experiences in the corporate world, a new chapter on their children's education and early careers gives the new edition a poignant and unusual intergenerational perspective. Blacks in the White Elite shows why America is at a crucial juncture in relations between blacks and whites, when advances made since the Civil Rights Movement could either continue or retrench, depending on the decisions made by our governments, communities, and schools. The voices of African Americans heard in this book bring home for the reader the everyday impact of national policy issues and debates on race and class in America.