“Concurrently, the growing class power and public voice of conservative and liberal well-to-do black folks easily obscures the class cruelty these individuals… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The problem is, authentic hip-hop culture is street culture. And so you've got middle-class blacks really emulating the norms of the South… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular… — John Ridley Copy Share Image