Birago, Kamau
But for the Grace? The Meaning of Intraracial Class Difference to Middle-class African Americans
Ph.D. Dissertation.
Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2000, 210 p.
On the nature and meaning of class relations between middle-class and less advantaged African-Americans. So far, scholarship «on class relations among African Americans has encouraged an oversimplified counterpoising of these relations as either markedly distant or unusually close....Through the modification of an analytical frame originated by Gramsci, I offer a more complex, contextualized and historically sensitive theoretical approach...: the hegemony thesis of black middle class/less fortunate black class relations. The Hegemony thesis is shown to provide a superior interpretation....for making sense of the contradictions in pre-existing empirical research... This new thesis incorporates, rather than explains away, the contradictory nature of class relations among African-Americans...».
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Birago, Kamau |
| Subjects |
Afro Americani, Rapporti di classe
African American class relationships
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