Cosby Cohort - Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class

Informationen zum Autor Cherise Harris is associate professor of sociology at Connecticut College. She has published articles in a number of journals, including Race, Gender, and Class, and Teaching Sociology. is the coeditor of the book Getting Real about Race: Hoodies, Mascots, Model Minorities, and Other Conversations. Klappentext 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 Americans of other social classes, and more. Zusammenfassung 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 Americans of other social classes! and more. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: The Genesis of the Cosby Cohort: 1980s-1990s 2: Training for the Race: The Cosby Cohort and the Black Middle Class Culture of Mobility 3: Race Lessons: What the Cosby Cohort Really Learned about Blacks and Blackness 4: Cast Out of the Race: The Reality of Childhood Intraracial Rejection 5: Losing the Race?: Attachment, Ambivalence, and Retreat 6: Where Do We Go From Here? Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: HARRIS, Cherise A. Harris, Cherise Andrea Harris, HARRIS CHERISE A
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9781442217652
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1765-2
• No. of pages: 270
• Series: Perspectives on a Multiracial America; Perspectives on a Multiracial; Perspectives on a Multiracial America; Perspectives on a Multiracial
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Ethnic Studies, American Studies, United States of America, USA, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General