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Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class (1st Edition) by Mary Pattillo-Mccoy Paperback, 283 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-226-64929-6 / 0226649296 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-64929-0 / 9780226649290 After living for three years in "Groveland", a black middle-class neighbourhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy sought to explain the discontinuities in their daily life, both troublesome and hopeful, she witnessed. Residents work in stable middle-class jobs and many have si |