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Also by Lawrence Otis Graham:

The Senator and the Socialite, July 2006
Hardcover
Our Kind of People, February 2000
Trade Size (reprint)
A Member Of The Club, October 1996
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Our Kind of People
Lawrence Otis Graham

Inside America's Black Upper Class

Harper
February 2000
On Sale: February 1, 2000
448 pages
ISBN: 0060984384
EAN: 9780060984380
Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction

Debutante cotillions. Million-dollar homes. Summers in Martha's Vineyard. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.

Author and TV commentator Lawrence Otis Graham, one of the nation's most prominent spokesmen on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America. He includes historical photos of a people that made their first millions in the 1870s. Graham tells who's in and who's not in the group today with separate chapters on the elite in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Nashville, and New Orleans. A new Introduction explains the controversy that the book elicited from both the black and white communities.

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