Issues in Race & Society

Volume 9

Spring 2020 Edition

 Special Guest Editors: Grace Khunou and Kris Marsh

Introduction: Defining the Global Black Middle Class

Grace Khunou and Kris Marsh

Marginalized Middle Classes in the City: A Comparative Lens on Race, Class, and Power

Mary Pattillo

Trickle Down Gentrification? Working-Class and Middle-Class African Americans’ Views of Development in Greater Downtown Detroit, Michigan

Jessica Welburn Paige

“It Fell on Me to Help Everybody”: Financial Precariousness and Costs of Upward Social Mobility among Black Middle-Class Women

                Tina K. Sacks, Whitney A. Sewell, Antonia E. Asher, and Darrell Hudson

Stigmatization and the Complex Lives of Single Middle-Class Women from Soweto

                Lesego Linda Plank and Grace Khunou

Well Then, I’m Joan Henry: Coping, and the Subsequent Threats to Upwardly Mobile Black Women’s Well-Being

Alta Mauro

Success Is Our Destiny: A Thematic Analysis of Black South African Women on Destiny Magazine Covers

                Sumayya Ebrahim and Sergio Malatjie

Elusive Masculinity: Being Black Middle-Class Men in a “Free” Society

                Peace Kiguwa and Sam Nkosi

A Generation Out of Apartheid: Intergenerational Educational Experiences among the South African Black Middle Class

Omari Jackson

Black Middle-Class Interpretations of Civic Engagement: “It’s What You’re Supposed to Do”

Candice C. Robinson