The New Black Middle Class. By Bart Landry. University of California Press. 250 pp. $22.50

Social Forces ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 545-547
Author(s):  
E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Black Middle Class

The New Black Middle Class.

1988 ◽  
Vol 103 (1) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Adolph L. Reed ◽  
Bart Landry
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Middle Class

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd M. Michney
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Predatory Lending ◽  
Elderly Home ◽  
Foreclosure Crisis ◽  
Mount Pleasant ◽  
Bona Fide ◽  
Middle Class Blacks

By the mid-1970s, upwardly mobile middle-class African Americans were increasingly departing neighbourhoods like Glenville, Mount Pleasant, and Lee-Harvard for a number of nearby bona fide suburbs. As a result, such former “surrogate suburbs” began to lose their lustre, although a core (generally elderly), home-owning black middle class still remains in these outlying city neighbourhoods to this day. Starting in the 1990s, Cleveland experienced a wave of predatory lending that culminated in the 2008 foreclosure crisis. Although middle class blacks in Cleveland as elsewhere have been disproportionately impacted by this trend, they have continued their historic strategy of outward geographic mobility in search of acceptable living conditions, even to the farthest metropolitan limits.

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