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Black Picket Fences

Privilege & Peril Among the Black Middle Class

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Black Picket Fences

By: Mary Pattillo
Narrated by: Jo Sands
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Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is 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, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where Black and White middle classes remain separate and unequal.

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great story by the of the flow of the reading is interrupted with the reading of two many footnotes

would have gotten better

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Horrible flow. Narration includes the reading of footnotes “author, book, date, publisher”. The narrator has read of up to 4 different footnotes. Stick to the book.

Footnotes are disruptive.

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Get past the intro. Many real life experiences true to form. Usually do not listen to these types of books but it was well worth it.

In depth and informative

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