Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD
Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton."Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture."New York TimesDebutante 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.
ISBN-13: 9780060984380

tags:
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class PDF Book
Full Download Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Full Book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Free Download Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class Read Kindle
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class PDF Kindle
Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class Download EPUB