The Cosby cohort : blessings and burdens of growing up Black middle class

The Cosby cohort : blessings and burdens of growing up Black middle class / Cherise A. Harris.

The Cosby Cohort examines the now-grown children who were raised in the black middle class. This probing book studies how their parents established their middle class position, how they interact with white America, the pressures placed upon them by their parents, how they connect with African Americ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harris, Cherise A., 1976-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2013.
Series:Perspectives on a multiracial America series.
Subjects:
Since 1975
African Americans > Social conditions > 1975-
Middle class > United States.
Black people > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans > Social conditions
Black people > Race identity
Middle class
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. The Genesis of the Cosby Cohort: 1980s-1990s; Chapter 02. Training for the Race: The Cosby Cohort and the Black Middle-Class Culture of Mobility; Chapter 03. Race Lessons: What the Cosby Cohort Really Learned about Blacks and Blackness; Chapter 04. Cast Out of the Race: The Reality of Childhood Intraracial Rejection; Chapter 05. Losing the Race? Attachment, Ambivalence, and Retreat; Chapter 06. Passing the Baton; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.

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