{"id":251,"date":"2015-10-08T22:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T22:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/?p=251"},"modified":"2015-10-18T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T18:39:44","slug":"blurry-line-of-the-black-elite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/10\/08\/blurry-line-of-the-black-elite\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurry Line of the Black Elite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The black middle class has historically been referred to as the black elite, but after reading <em>Black Picket Fences<\/em>, I think I can say that large swaths of the black middle class don\u2019t qualify with this \u201cold elite\u201d. The black middle class is much larger than it was in the late 1800s and has grown in heterogeneity. It seems as though there isn\u2019t the same type of separation that there used to be between the black middle class and the black lower class. As shown in <em>Black Picket Fences<\/em>, they blur together. The places where the black middle class lives are in direct proximity to where the lower class people live. This causes there to be a lot of spillover culturally and structurally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, you see the black middle class (especially the youth) perpetrating the behaviors that are generally associated with the lower class and most likely have their genesis there. It appears that the black middle class isn\u2019t trying to distance itself from the black lower class, but instead is now embracing many parts of the culture. This appears to mostly be a phenomenon in the younger generations, as the respectability politics of the black middle class fade away to a certain extent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The black middle class has historically been referred to as the black elite, but after reading Black Picket Fences, I think I can say that large swaths of the black middle class don\u2019t qualify with this \u201cold elite\u201d. The black middle class is much larger than it was in the late 1800s and has grown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/2015\/10\/08\/blurry-line-of-the-black-elite\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blurry Line of the Black Elite<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghetto-poverty-week-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/aaas16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}