Description
Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.
Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture. --New York Times
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 not 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.
Author: Lawrence Otis Graham
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 12/22/1999
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.06h x 5.30w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9780060984380
ISBN10: 0060984384
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | United States | 20th Century