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Sarah Phillips

3.6/5 ( ratings)

This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: July 03, 1993

ISBN: 155553158X

ISBN 13: 9781555531584

Sarah Phillips

3.6/5 ( ratings)

This novel, in the words of its title character, is set in "the hermetic world of the old-fashioned black bourgeoisie--a group largely unknown to other Americans, which has carried on with cautious pomp for years in eastern cities and suburbs, using its considerable funds to attempt poignant imitations of high society, acting with genuine gallantry in the struggle for civil rights, and finally producing a generation of children educated in newly integrated schools and impatient to escape the outworn rituals of their parents."

Language: English

Pages: 144

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: July 03, 1993

ISBN: 155553158X

ISBN 13: 9781555531584

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