First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo\'s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black Middle class.
The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a Black middle-Class neighborhood on Chicago\'s South Side, Black Picket Fences explored both the advantages the black.
Nearly fifteen years later, this book remains a groundbreaking study of a group still underrepresented in the academic and public spheres.
First published in 1999, Mary Pattillo\'s Black Picket Fences explores an American demographic group too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black Middle class