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

Informationen zum Autor By Cherise A. Harris 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 Preface1: The Genesis of the Cosby Cohort: 1980s-1990s2: Training for the Race: The Cosby Cohort and the Black Middle Class Culture of Mobility3: Race Lessons: What the Cosby Cohort Really Learned about Blacks and Blackness 4: Cast Out of the Race: The Reality of Childhood Intraracial Rejection5: Losing the Race?: Attachment, Ambivalence, and Retreat6: Where Do We Go From Here?Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Cherise A Harris, Cherise A. Harris, Cherise Andrea Harris
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781442217669
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1766-9
• 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