Kris Marsh (College Park University of Maryland)

The Love Jones Cohort

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Love Jones Cohort centers adults who are single and living alone (SALA) in the Black middle class. The book examines how intersecting identities and social structures shape the emergence, acceptance, and inclusion of SALA adults as a lifestyle and family within scholarship on the Black middle class and singlehood.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9781107160101
• ISBN-10: 1107160103
• Artikelnr.: 66266709

Autorenporträt

Kris Marsh is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland. Previously, Professor Marsh was a visiting researcher at the University of Southern California and Fulbright Scholar in South Africa at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg. Professor Marsh's areas of expertise are the Black middle class, demography, racial residential segregation, and education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Scholarly debates on defining the Black middle class
2. How the Love Jones Cohort define the Black middle class
3. The Love Jones Cohort and Black middle-class identity
4. The rise of never-married Black singles
5. Choice, circumstance, or both?
6. Lifestyle ebbs and flows
7. Intergenerational mobility and disseminating wealth
8. Homeownership and the accumulation of wealth
9. Neighborhood decisions and interactions
10. Health, mental well-being, and coping strategies (with Courtney Thomas)
Conclusion
Afterword.