Mary E. Pattillo Books
Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class
"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. After living for three years in "G...
Read MoreBlack on the Block: The Politics of Race And Class in the City
By Mary E. Pattillo, Mary Pattillo
The author presents a comprehensive analysis of the renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland neighborhood and how the residents banded together to root out the gangs and violent in order to trans...
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