ABSTRACT
Through an in-depth case study of the black professional middle class in Oakland, this book provides an analysis of the experiences of black professionals in the workplace, community, and local politics. Brown shows how overlapping dynamics of class formation and racial formation have produced historically powerful processes of what he terms "racialized class formation," resulting in a distinct (and internally differentiated) entity, not merely a subset of a larger professional middle class.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |23 pages
The Black Middle Class
From the Declining Significance of Race to Racialized Class Formation
chapter |31 pages
Swimming in the Mainstream
Racialized Class Formation and the Black Professional Middle Class since the Civil Rights Era
chapter |32 pages
The Black Professional Middle Class and Racialized Class Politics
The Rise and Fall of a Black Urban Regime in Oakland
