BART LANDRY is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The New Black Middle Class as well as Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution.

"The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is an important piece of scholarship that details the characteristics, experiences, and concerns of a still understudied subset of the U.S. Black population."— Camille Zubrinsky Charles, University of Pennsylvania"There is no better way to understand the new Black middle class than to hear directly from them. Landry brings statistics to life and offers an important story about the potential of strong and economically stable Black communities."— Mary Patillo, author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class"The Kojo Nnamdi Show" interview with Bart Landry - "How The Black Middle Class Is Growing And Changing"— WAMA "Kojo Nnamdi Show""Highly recommended."— ChoiceBBC Sounds "Thinking Aloud" interview with Bart Landry, "The Changing Middle Class" — BBC "Thinking Aloud"

• Introduction1    The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century2    Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class3    Changing Neighborhoods4    Pick up the Newspaper We're Out of Town5    Catch 226    Educating the New Black Middle Class7    From School to Work8    Income and Wealth9    The Next Generation10    Afterword: 2007 to the Present11    Conclusion: The Twenty-First CenturyAppendixAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

BART LANDRY is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The New Black Middle Class as well as Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution.

"The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is an important piece of scholarship that details the characteristics, experiences, and concerns of a still understudied subset of the U.S. Black population."— Camille Zubrinsky Charles, University of Pennsylvania"There is no better way to understand the new Black middle class than to hear directly from them. Landry brings statistics to life and offers an important story about the potential of strong and economically stable Black communities."— Mary Patillo, author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class"The Kojo Nnamdi Show" interview with Bart Landry - "How The Black Middle Class Is Growing And Changing"— WAMA "Kojo Nnamdi Show""Highly recommended."— ChoiceBBC Sounds "Thinking Aloud" interview with Bart Landry, "The Changing Middle Class" — BBC "Thinking Aloud"

• Introduction1    The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century2    Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class3    Changing Neighborhoods4    Pick up the Newspaper We're Out of Town5    Catch 226    Educating the New Black Middle Class7    From School to Work8    Income and Wealth9    The Next Generation10    Afterword: 2007 to the Present11    Conclusion: The Twenty-First CenturyAppendixAcknowledgementsNotesIndex

BART LANDRY is emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of The New Black Middle Class as well as Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution.

"The New Black Middle Class in the Twenty-First Century is an important piece of scholarship that details the characteristics, experiences, and concerns of a still understudied subset of the U.S. Black population."— Camille Zubrinsky Charles, University of Pennsylvania"There is no better way to understand the new Black middle class than to hear directly from them. Landry brings statistics to life and offers an important story about the potential of strong and economically stable Black communities."— Mary Patillo, author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class"The Kojo Nnamdi Show" interview with Bart Landry - "How The Black Middle Class Is Growing And Changing"— WAMA "Kojo Nnamdi Show""Highly recommended."— ChoiceBBC Sounds "Thinking Aloud" interview with Bart Landry, "The Changing Middle Class" — BBC "Thinking Aloud"

• Introduction1    The New Black Middle Class and the Demographics of the Twenty-First Century2    Suburbanization of the New Black Middle Class3    Changing Neighborhoods4    Pick up the Newspaper We're Out of Town5    Catch 226    Educating the New Black Middle Class7    From School to Work8    Income and Wealth9    The Next Generation10    Afterword: 2007 to the Present11    Conclusion: The Twenty-First CenturyAppendixAcknowledgementsNotesIndex