![]() ![]() ![]() Frazier argued that "the social world of the Negro. The latter, published in 1957, is an important, mis-understood and controversial book. Franklin Frazier's Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States. $25 What Lawrence Otis Graham calls "America's black upper class" is hidden off in a corner all its own, closed by its members' volition to the rest of society both white and black, governed by its own rules and traditions, "filled with irony and conflict." Though the literature of the African-American experience is vast, precious little of it enters this world, with two notable exceptions: a few of the most mordantly satiric passages in Ralph Ellison's masterpiece, Invisible Man, and a remarkable work of sociology, E. ![]() OUR KIND OF PEOPLE Inside America's Black Upper Class By Lawrence Otis Graham HarperCollins. ![]()
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