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The Other Brahmins : Boston's Black Upper Class 1750-1950

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Format Hardback
ISBN-10 155728301X
ISBN-13 9781557283016
Publisher University of Arkansas Press
Imprint University of Arkansas Press
Country of Manufacture US
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jul 1st, 1995
Print length 277 Pages
Weight 333 grams
Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms
KSh 7,200.00
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Adelaide Cromwell’s pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Based on scholarly sources, interviews, and questionnaires, the study identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. The central focus is a comparison of black and white upper-class women in the 1940s.

This rare look at a black social microcosm not located in the South is seminal and timely. Because it concludes at a critical period in American history, The Other Brahmins paints a colorful backdrop for evaluating subsequent changes in urban sociology and stratification. In a groundbreaking study, Cromwell effectively challenges the simplistic notions of hierarchy as they pertain to race.


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