Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's t in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins, Harpercollins Publishers Inc
ISBN-10
0060984384
ISBN-13
9780060984380
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107438690
Product Key Features
Author
Lawrence Otis Graham
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Sciences: Textbooks & Study Guides
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Content Note
Facsimiles, Portraits
Out-Of-Print Date
11/09/2008
Edition Statement
New Edition
Country of Publication
United States
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