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The Rise of the Black Middle Class |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT |
| Author: Robert L. Harrris Jr. |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,382 Words, 18,141 Characters |
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In November 1998, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank devoted to black economic and political participation in American society, reported that for the first time in its surveys of black opinion, more African Americans than whites responded favorably when asked whether they were better off financially than in the previous year.vbcrlf This unprecedented optimism among African Americans reflects the growth of a strong black middle class, the lowest poverty rate since measurements were started in 1959, and unemployment below 10 percent. These are heady but fragile times for the newly emergent black middle class.vbcrlfA post-1960s phenomenonvbcrlf T...
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...;Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, Routledge, New York, 1995.vbcrlf Jessie Carney Smith and Carrell Horton, ed., Statistical Record of Black America, Gale Research, Detroit, 1997.Susan Tolliver, Black Families in Corporate America, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., 1998. vbcrlf
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