Sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, chairman of sociology at Howard University, delivered in this book an unsparing analysis of the Black middle class — its origins, its status-seeking, and what he saw as its world of make-believe, cut off at once from the Black masses and from acceptance by white America. First published in French in 1955, the English edition of 1957 won the American Sociological Association's MacIver Award. It remains a classic — and still argued-about — work of American sociology.
Author: E. Franklin Frazier · Original publisher: The Free Press (Glencoe, IL), 1957
