The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century

By Bart Landry

Rutgers University Press

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is a significant contribution to the continuing study of black middle class life. Sociologist Bart Landry examines the changes that have occurred since the publication of his now-classic The New Black Middle Class in the late 1980s, and conducts a comprehensive examination of black middle class American life in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Landry investigates the educational and occupational attainment, income and wealth, methods of child-rearing, community-building priorities, and residential settlement patterns of this growing yet still-understudied segment of the U.S. population.

The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is an important piece of scholarship that details the characteristics, experiences, and concerns of a still understudied subset of the U.S. Black population. Camille Zubrinsky Charles, University of Pennsylvania

There is no better way to understand the new Black middle class than to hear directly from them. Landry brings statistics to life and offers an important story about the potential of strong and economically stable Black communities. Mary Patillo, author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

The Kojo Nnamdi Show' interview with Bart Landry - 'How The Black Middle Class Is Growing And Changing WAMA "Kojo Nnamdi Show"

Highly recommended. Choice

BBC Sounds 'Thinking Aloud' interview with Bart Landry, 'The Changing Middle Class' BBC "Thinking Aloud"

BART LANDRY is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The New Black Middle Class as well as Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution.

Introduction
1   The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century
2   Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class
3   Changing Neighborhoods
4   Pick up the Newspaper We’re Out of Town
5   Catch 22
6   Educating the New Black Middle Class
7   From School to Work
8   Income and Wealth
9   The Next Generation
10   Afterword: 2007 to the Present
11   Conclusion: The Twenty-First Century
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index

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