Our Form of Individuals: Inside America’s Black Higher Class

“Fascinating. . . . [Graham] has made a significant contribution each to African-American research and the bigger American image.”  —New York Occasions

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar houses. Summers in Martha’s Winery. Membership within the Hyperlinks, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the appropriate colleges, households, social golf equipment, and pores and skin complexion. That is the world of the black higher class and the main focus of the primary e-book written in regards to the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.

Creator and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of many nation’s most distinguished spokesmen on race and sophistication, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black households in America. He consists of historic pictures of a those who made their first hundreds of thousands within the 1870s. Graham tells who’s in and who’s not within the group at present with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A brand new Introduction explains the controversy that the e-book elicited from each the black and white communities.