Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].

When E. Franklin Frazier was elected the first black president of the American Sociological Association in 1948, he was established as the leading American scho

Examines how generations of African Americans perceive, proclaim, and name the combined performance of race and class across genres.

Recounts the story of the Horne family spanning eight generations and describing America's developing black middle class by Lena Horne's daughter.

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