{"product_id":"black-picket-fences-second-edition-privilege-and-peril-among-the-black-middle-class-9780226021195","title":"Black Picket Fences, Second Edition: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mary Pattillo | Annette Lareau\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1999, Mary Pattillo's \u003ci\u003eBlack Picket Fences \u003c\/i\u003eexplores 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, \u003ci\u003eBlack Picket Fences\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46492361687191,"sku":"9780226021195","price":2929.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780226021195.jpg?v=1766352658","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/black-picket-fences-second-edition-privilege-and-peril-among-the-black-middle-class-9780226021195","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}