Overview
This pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Cromwell identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and effectively challenges the simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race.Synopsis
This pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Cromwell identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, and effectively challenges the simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race.
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With special attention to the differences between white and black upper-class women in the 1940s, explores the race and social caste system of elite blacks in a northern urban environment from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 20th century. Cromwell (retired, sociology and Afro-American Studies, Boston U.) makes a major contribution to the ongoing illumination of American blacks in other than stereotypical environments. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)