![Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class by Mary Pattillo-McCoy [Hardback] [Used]](http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0018/4067/6962/products/511KPi5sPyL_1_{width}x.jpg?v=1535582920)
Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland," a black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the black middle class. Despite arguments that race no longer matters, Pattillo-McCoy shows a different reality, one where black and white middle classes remain separate and unequal.