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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Black middle class"”.
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Is the black middle class shrinking?
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma
… school choice decision-making process of black middle-class families living in the Algiers community of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement helped …
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"Not Free, Merely Licensed": The Black Middle Class As Political Language
The Black middle class has been a subject of intense debate in the last twenty years. Much of the debate has centered on the existence of the Black middle class and whether their status is permanent. Using, J.G.A. Pocock's, concept of "political language," I plan to examine the Black middle class …
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LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT: BLACK MIDDLE-CLASS COLLEGIANS IN WHITE SPACES
… backgrounds. College success patterns for Black college students at historically white institutions tend to be lower than those of white students (Improving College Access and Completion, 2015). Scholars have attributed lower college completion rates among this subgroup to precollege …
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Lahla Ngubo : the continuities and discontinuities of a South African Black middle class
… of the trajectories of South Africa’s historical black middle class - a class which is defined by access to education, and resulting occupational opportunities, as well as access to land. The middle class under study is a particular black middle class that established itself in Mthatha in the …
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The Black Middle-class Marriage Paradox: At the Intersection of Race, Upward Mobility, and Gender
… American marriage has also become increasingly classed—selecting on those who are socioeconomically stable and college educated—and racialized—with Black Americans being the least likely group to ever marry. Racial disparities in marriage entry also persist across class status to pattern the …
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Get involved : stories of the Caribbean postcolonial black middle class and the development of civil society
… project is: How do the narratives of Caribbean black middle class civil society within the bounds of the “post-postcolonial” state, explain the evolving yet current environment of local and postcolonial civil society development? Using the Bahamas as a case, this project explores the historical, …
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The language socialisation experiences of a grade r child in a black middle-class multilingual family
… language that is reported to be valued by the middleclass, people who are known for placing a high premium on education (Soudien, 2004; Alexander, 2005). The aim of this ethnographic Language Socialisation study is to explore the language socialisation experiences of a Grade R child in a Black …
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Cultural capital and cultural repertoires among the black middle-class: race, class, and culture in the racialised social system
… thesis, I ask ‘Do racism and anti-racism affect black middle-class cultural lives?’ I answer this question through interviews with thirty-two black Brits in professional occupations, and ethnographic work across middle-class spaces in London. I argue there are three black middle-class identity …
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A critical tax theory approach to income tax relief for black-middle class taxpayers contributing to the support of family
… This research has found that taxpayers who are black and middle-class are likely to make contributions to the support of household member and non-household member dependants. This is also supported by literature from the United States, where black middle-class individuals are found to make …
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The presence of and antecedents to bandwagon consumption behaviour among the South African black middle class in the context of luxury motor vehicles
… factors that influence the South African Black middle class to engage in bandwagon consumption when purchasing luxury motor vehicles. The South African Black middle class has been receiving attention in consumer markets, especially from luxury brand houses looking at emerging markets for …
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Exploring the Factors that Impact on the Attitude to Purchase: A spotlight on counterfeit luxury handbags among Durban's emergent Black Middle-class Females
… was conducted in Durban, home to a large female middle-class population, deemed to satisfy many of the characteristics attributed to the typical counterfeit handbag consumer. The study adopted a post-positivist research paradigm and employed a causal research design. In terms of research …
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Exploring complexity in well-being: A mixed methods examination of the Black women’s well-being paradox
This study explores the complexity of Black women’s well-being and policy experience along the income distribution. This dissertation consists of three separate but related essays. Chapter 1 argues for the active inclusion of intersectionality theory in social and economic policy work. I rely on …
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Home and national belonging : narratives of Zimbabwean middle class women in Cape Town
… analysis of narratives collected from Zimbabwean black middle class women residing in the South Africa’s coastal city of Cape Town. The narratives construct and locate participants in the main South Africa xenophobia immigration discourse. The research attempts to answer the question: How do …
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The levels and patterns of racial residential desegregation in Cape Town
… In-depth interviews were conducted with black households in these areas. The 1996 Census was used to assess the levels of desegregation and explore the characteristics of desegregation emerging in Cape Town. The gradual movement of black households to the former white group areas was1 …
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Moving Up, Moving Out: Race and Social Mobility in Chicago, 1914--1972
… dissertation examines the formation of the new middle class in relation to racial divisions in Chicago. I argue that upward mobility in the twentieth century allowed European-Americans to shed racial stigmas and doubts about their abilities to Americanize, creating neighborhoods and ideologies …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
<p>“Suburbs in Black and White” examines how economic development shaped African American suburbanization on Long Island, New York from 1920 through 1980. After 1940, the fortunes of Long Island’s growing black population shifted from widespread poverty to upward social mobility, though by the …
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Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
… onto the roof of an occupied rowhome in a Black, middle-class West Philadelphia neighborhood. The bombing and the decision to allow the fire to burn killed five children and six adults – all members of a controversial group called MOVE – and destroyed 61 rowhomes. This dissertation employs …
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Under theCapital Dome:' the Literary Culture of Middle-Class African Americans In Columbia, South Carolina, 1930-1932
… to the intense literary engagement practiced by black middle-class Columbians and argues for a revision of long-standing theories about African American life in South Carolina during the 1930s. Through a deeper and more thorough investigation African American life in the South, we witness …
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Race and the post-Fordist spatial order in Cape Town
… System is used to look at the location of the middle class in Cape Town and the spatial patterns of post-apartheid desegregation by mapping the Census 2001 class and race data. This is to determine the extent to which the decentralisation of office parks and shopping centres is reinforcing the …
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