About the Author

Mary Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and coeditor of Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration.

Reviews

"This sensitive account of a Chicago South Side neighborhood and its residents gives readers an insiders' view of the community, bringing the issues and challenges that confront the black middle class to the forefront." (Black Enterprise) "An insightful look at the socioeconomic experiences of the black middle class.... Through the prism of a South Side Chicago neighborhood, the author shows the distinctly different reality middle-class blacks face as opposed to middle-class whites." (Ebony)"