Showing Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham
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Paperback. Pub Date: December 1999 Pages: 448 in Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Debutante cotillions Million-dollar homes. Summers. in Martha's Vineyard the 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...
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