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The Cosby Cohort
Blessings and Burdens of Growing Up Black Middle Class
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2013
Summary
The Cosby Cohort examines the childhood experiences of second generation middle class Blacks who grew up in mostly White spaces during the 1980s and 1990s. This probing book explores their journey to upward mobility, including the discrimination they faced in White neighborhoods and schools, the extraordinary pressures placed upon them to achieve, the racial lessons imparted to them by their parents, their tenuous relationships with Black children of other classes, and the impact that all of these experiences had on their adult racial identities. At young ages, this generation of middle class Blacks, whom Harris coins as the Cosby Cohort, was faced with racial displacement, frustration, and the ever-present pressure to emerge victorious against the pull of downward mobility. Even in adulthood, they continue to negotiate the tensions between upward mobility and maintaining ties to the larger Black community and culture. While these young Blacks may have grown up watching The Cosby Show, as the book reveals, their stories indicate a much more complex reality than portrayed by the show.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1765-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1767-6
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
244
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. The Genesis of the Cosby Cohort: 1980s–1990s No access Pages 1 - 28
Chapter 02. Training for the Race: The Cosby Cohort and the Black Middle-Class Culture of Mobility No access Pages 29 - 68
Chapter 03. Race Lessons: What the Cosby Cohort Really Learned about Blacks and Blackness No access Pages 69 - 102
Chapter 04. Cast Out of the Race: The Reality of Childhood Intraracial Rejection No access Pages 103 - 136
Chapter 05. Losing the Race? Attachment, Ambivalence, and Retreat No access Pages 137 - 180
Chapter 06. Passing the Baton No access Pages 181 - 194
