The Emerging Philadelphia African American Class Structure

Bibliographic Data

ID9762173
AuthorsE Anderson (0000-0002-9549-0588, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume568
Issue1
Pages54-77
Publication date2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716200568001006
OpenAlexW4245470690
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited39

In The Philadelphia Negro, W.E.B. Du Bois presented a four-class typology of the black community. Today the situation has changed greatly. The enormous social changes of the twentieth century, culminating in the civil rights movement and followed by civil disorders occurring on a wide scale in urban America, resulted in attempts by the wider society to incorporate black Americans through federally mandated social programs such as affirmative action, fair housing legislation, set-asides, and major civil rights legislation. These initiatives helped to defuse much of the tension of the 1960s, but they also set the stage for much greater black participation in American society, leading to tremendous growth in the black middle class. At the same time, these measures of black incorporation, as realized over the past 30 years, have greatly changed the traditional castelike system of race relations. In conjunction with deindustrialization and the simultaneous growth of the global economy, these changes have contributed to a more complex class configuration among blacks

Affirmative action · African american · Civil rights · Class (philosophy · Class action · Deindustrialization · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Legislation · Middle class · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Typology · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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