Cherise A. Harris

The Cosby Cohort

Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives on a Multiracial America
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 595g
• ISBN-13: 9781442217652
• ISBN-10: 1442217650
• Artikelnr.: 36699750

Autorenporträt

By Cherise A. Harris

Inhaltsangabe

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