Black Bourgeoisie
Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of
Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America
Paperback – February 13, 1997
by E. Franklin Frazier (Author)
A classic analysis of the Black middle class studies its origin and development, accentuating its behavior, attitudes, and values during the 1940s and 1950s.
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.
The author traces the evolution of this enigmatic class from the segregated South to the post-war boom in the integrated North, showing how, along the road to what seemed like prosperity and progress, middle-class blacks actually lost their roots to the traditional black world while never achieving acknowledgment from the white sector. The result, concluded Frazier, 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.
Publisher: Free Press; First Edition (February 13, 1997)
Language: English
Paperback: 264 pages
ISBN-10: 0684832410
ISBN-13: 978-0684832418
Item Weight: 2.31 pounds
Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.44 inches
