Cherise A. Harris

The Cosby Cohort

Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class

• Broschiertes 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: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781442217669
• ISBN-10: 1442217669
• Artikelnr.: 42459956

Autorenporträt

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.

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