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An examination of the black middle class in America, first published in 1957, but increasingly relevant as the division between prosperous blacks and an increasingly desperate underclass grows wider.

When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered - revered for its skillful dissection of one of America's most complex communities, reviled for daring to cast a critical eye on a section of black society that had achieved the trappings of the white, bourgeois ideal.

To read Black Bourgeoisie today is not only to experience one of the most important studies ...

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Overview

An examination of the black middle class in America, first published in 1957, but increasingly relevant as the division between prosperous blacks and an increasingly desperate underclass grows wider.

When it was first published in 1957, E. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously reviled and revered - revered for its skillful dissection of one of America's most complex communities, reviled for daring to cast a critical eye on a section of black society that had achieved the trappings of the white, bourgeois ideal.

To read Black Bourgeoisie today is not only to experience one of the most important studies of African American life but also to realize how controversial and relevant Frazier's revelations and challenges remain.

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When it was first published in 1957, Black Bourgeoisie was simultaneously revered and reviled because it cast a critical eye on one of the cornerstones of the black American community—its middle class. In the 1950s, before the recent burgeoning of the black middle class, Frazier identified the problems that occur in the aftermath of "black-flight" from the inner cities and black communities of the rural South. The book's relevance has only increased as over the years the divide between increasingly prosperous middle-class blacks and their increasingly desperate "underclass" brethren has grown into an almost uncrossable chasm.

By tracing the evolution of the black bourgeoisie, from the segregated South to the integrated North, Frazier shows how the blacks who comprised the middle class have lost their cohesion by moving out of black communities and attempting to integrate white communities. The result of this integration "is an anomalous bourgeois class with no identity, built on self-sustaining myths of black business and society, silently undermined by a collective, debilitating inferiority complex." Frazier hoped to dispel the image of blacks as having thrown off the psychological and economical ravages of slavery to become economically powerful, because according to Frazier, it was a lie that was damaging the community.

Frazier, chairman of the Department of Sociology at Howard University and president of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Race Relations, hoped that Black Bourgeoisie would impel blacks to make changes that would empower their community. For the most part, those hoped-for changes have not occurred. Nevertheless, today, as many black people are calling into question the very existence and relevance of an autonomous "black community," his book offers a fascinating perspective on the costs of that community's dissolution.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780684832418
  • Publisher: Free Press
  • Publication date: 2/28/1997
  • Edition description: First Free Press Paperback Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 372,210
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface 1
Introduction 9
I The Roots of the Black Bourgeoisie 29
II The Economic Basis of Middle-Class Status 43
III Education of the Black Bourgeoisie 60
IV Power and Political Orientation 86
V Break with the Traditional Background 112
VI Inferiority Complex and Quest for Status 130
VII Negro Business: A Social Myth 153
VIII The Negro Press and Wish-Fulfillment 174
IX "Society": Status without Substance 195
X Behind the Masks 213
Conclusion 233
Notes 239
Index of Names 259
Index of Subjects 263

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2007

    arrested development

    ¿When the opportunity has been presented the black bourgeoisie has exploited the Negro masses as ruthlessly as have whites. As the intellectual leaders in the Negro community they have never dared think beyond a narrow opportunistic philosophy that provided a rationalization for their own advantages. Although the black bourgeoisie exercise considerable influence on the values of Negroes they do not occupy a dignified position in the Negro community.¿ Clearly a controversial study by a Howard University sociologist regarding an elite group within the then African American community and their emergence as an phenomenon. The study taking place from the mid 1800`s to the 1950`s shows how this community was developed after their conquering and subsequent enslavement. The elite started out as mostly the offspring of the masters, moved on to be educated in substandard schools, then onto businesses that didn¿t amount to much and into political areas wear they commanded no power. In other words the whole community was emasculated and their deeds were not respected by whites nor by the blacks for whom they did not want to associate. As a consequence according to the author, ¿the very existence of a separate Negro community with its own institutions within the heart of the American society is indicative of its quasi-pathological character¿ as it `struggles to gain acceptance by whites¿. The author makes points that are dead on, and apply to the various characters that we associated with today. Unfortunately today many of this select group have morphed into varying degrees of mental illness from (ward, tiger, orenthal, clarence) to the average affirmative action professional, with little changes in the behavior of the petit bourgeoisie¿.

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