Black Picket Fences

CTL-E-4347 · Work · book · 1999

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Mary Pattillo's first book (University of Chicago Press, 1999), an award-winning ethnography of child-rearing and youth socialization in 'Groveland,' a Black middle-class South Side Chicago neighborhood where she lived for three years.

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Also known as: Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class

Notes

RELP99 supporting entity: edge endpoint for CTL-E-0904 authored_by.

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Mary Pattillo — authored by
Black Picket Fences (1999) is Mary Pattillo's first book.

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Northwestern University - Mary Pattillo faculty bio. https://sociology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/mary-pattillo.html

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