#black middle class

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Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts

For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce c

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[leftofblack]

Left of Black S10:E19 | Candice M. Jenkins on the Black Middle Class

Candice M. Jenkins,  Professor of African American Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and the author of the recently released and critically-acclaimed Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), joined Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal to consider the precocious existence of Black bodies in our society, even if educated and middle-class. Professors Jenkins and Neal discussed the speculative nature of Afro-pessimism, getting arrested at Starbucks, and the numerous works of Black authors and artists that heavily influenced Jenkins’ latest publication. 

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The Forgotten Black Middle Class—Then and Now

By Michael Phillips | MDBayNews Modern political debates often assume that Black economic progress began only after the expansion of federal social programs in the mid-20th century. That assumption is comforting, simple—and historically incomplete. Long before the advent of the Great Society, Black Americans built a middle class under far more restrictive conditions than those that exist today.…

The Forgotten Black Middle Class—Then and Now

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Beware of the "Black Middle Class." #blackhistory

I get it! Ruminating on the last election, I really understand it.

[clearesonance]

frantic friday youtube... i get sick of being demonized for wanting to enjoy my life.

you ever be too weak to fight but too scared to run?.. when i was referring to the Langston Huges poem on the back of the milestones one off, i thought Mr. Hughes was viewing the situation with hyperbole, but he wasn’t. i’d have to view the situation through the eyes of someone who can only mentally assimilate, but is driven to try their best to put on that mask to the best of their ability so…

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[blackqueerliving]

Why does the Black middle class hate working class Black people and/or Black queer and trans* people SO much?

They get so much from us yet it’s so exploitative, performative, and generally abusive behavior from the lot of them. Yet, I have to pretend like everything is okay when it’s not. It’s so upsetting. What can be done besides understand things from their point of view? I just don’t know anymore. There’s way more to their story, and I’m going to firgure it all out. Love and curiosity will keep me going more than anything.