Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class - Hardcover

Graham, Lawrence Otis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060183527 ISBN 13: 9780060183523

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1999

Synopsis

The black lawyer who made headlines by working undercover in an all-white Connecticut country club reports on the mores, racial politics, and history of America's black upper-class. By the author of Member of the Club. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

"A must read?casts an unblinking eye on America's black elite." -- "Publisher's Weekly""A provocative and important study of the world of priviliged African Americans."-- "New York Post""Delightful...Graham has made a major contribution both to African-American sudies and to the larger American picture."-- "New York Times""Captivating...From debutante cotillions and the right vacation spots to who's in and who's not."-- "Los Angeles Magazine"

"A provocative and important study of the world of priviliged African Americans."--New York Post

"Captivating...From debutante cotillions and the right vacation spots to who's in and who's not."--Los Angeles Magazine

"A must read casts an unblinking eye on America's black elite."--Publisher's Weekly

A must read casts an unblinking eye on America s black elite. --Publisher's Weekly"

A provocative and important study of the world of priviliged African Americans. --New York Post"

Captivating...From debutante cotillions and the right vacation spots to who s in and who s not. --Los Angeles Magazine"

From the Back Cover:

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.

Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060183527
• ISBN 13: 9780060183523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 418