Bart Landry
The New Black Middle Class
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-06465-2
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"Extremely well-written. . . . Mr. Landry has filled a need with his study of the new black middle class—blacks who have achieved middle-class status since the civil rights revolution of the 1960's."—Don Wycliff, The New York Times
"Landry's study is filled with startling and revealing information. . . . In presenting his, by and large, sobering analysis, Landry does not detract from the achievements blacks have made and, when examining the emergence of the new black middle class, he pays particular attention to the strength of the black family: mothers and fathers, nuclear and extended."—Tonya Bolden Davis, Black Enterprise
"Landry has written a revealing book which provides an important antidote to the optimistic-sounding findings of the Civil Rights Commission."—Andrew Hacker, The New York Review of Books
"Landry's study is filled with startling and revealing information. . . . In presenting his, by and large, sobering analysis, Landry does not detract from the achievements blacks have made and, when examining the emergence of the new black middle class, he pays particular attention to the strength of the black family: mothers and fathers, nuclear and extended."—Tonya Bolden Davis, Black Enterprise
"Landry has written a revealing book which provides an important antidote to the optimistic-sounding findings of the Civil Rights Commission."—Andrew Hacker, The New York Review of Books
In this important new book, Bart Landry contributes significantly to the study of black American life and its social stratification and to the study of American middle class life in general.
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