Word: ethnicity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still cluster together, whether in city or suburbs. "I wouldn't think of moving into a white neighborhood unless other blacks were there first," says Sandra Dillard, a reporter for the Denver Post. "You see, we are secure in some ways but not in others." Like other American ethnic groups, blacks also prefer the company of one another, and when they have a community such as Atlanta, it is easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited by whites...
Probably the crudest dilemma facing the new middle class is their relationship with blacks left behind in the ghetto. It is natural enough for the middle class to pull out of the slums once they can afford to-just as other ethnic groups have done. But by leaving, they abandon those who cannot escape the ghetto to its more rapacious elements, aggravating the spread of crime and decay. Small wonder that middle-class blacks feel some guilt and ambivalence about fleeing to better neighborhoods...
Despite the inevitable tension between blacks who have made it and those who have not, there is ample evidence that middle-class blacks are lending as much of a hand to their less fortunate brothers as most other ethnic groups in the past. Says Francena Thomas, the Florida educator: "Blacks feel that until all blacks have the tools to make it, no black has made...
...play a commanding role in America. "There are many middle-class blacks," quips Elworth Taylor, director of planning at Chicago's Provident Hospital, "but there is no black middle class." Yet too much should not be expected too soon. Because of its origins in slavery, no other ethnic group has started so far behind in America with so many historical liabilities. For blacks the way up is all the steeper, the climb the more arduous. What is encouraging is that they seem to be making a successful ascent. Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle...
...lifestyle, attitude and aspiration, the black middle class is almost as diverse as any other ethnic group of comparable income. Some of this diversity is shown in the following two portraits, one of a longestablished, upper-middle-income black family in the Deep South, another of a newly arrived middle-income couple in the North...