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Title: DATED!!!
Review: This book asks if sociological findings on the black middle class in the first half of the 20th century are true in the latter half. Some of the hypothesizes are so bourgeois, it's hard to believe that any black person actually believed them.Still, this book focused only on presumably straight, black men. It doesn't interview black women, even though blacks have debated whether Friedan's "feminine mystique" even applies to them for decades. Don't let James Evans' position on Florida's working fool you: most black women were not barred from working by their husbands.Next the book lists the marital status of the black interviewees and just assumes that all of them would want female marriage partners anyway. Yes, this book was published only two years after the Stonewall Riots, but it still feels painfully heterosexist as a modern reader.Still, if you like books like "Black Metropolis" and "The Black Bourgeoisie", you might as well read this too. I just wasn't pleased by this text generally.
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