{"product_id":"black-bourgeois-candice-m-jenkins-9781517905804","title":"Black Bourgeois: Class and Sex in the Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExploring the forces that keep black people vulnerable even amid economically privileged lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At a moment in U.S. history with repeated reminders of the vulnerability of African Americans to state and extralegal violence, \u003ci\u003eBlack Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to consider the contradiction of privileged, presumably protected black bodies that nonetheless remain racially vulnerable. Examining disruptions around race and class status in literary texts, Candice M. Jenkins reminds us that the conflicted relation of the black subject to privilege is not, solely, a recent phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on works by Toni Morrison, Spike Lee, Danzy Senna, Rebecca Walker, Reginald McKnight, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead, and Michael Thomas, Jenkins shows that the seemingly abrupt discursive shift from post-Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter, from an emphasis on privilege and progress to an emphasis on vulnerability and precariousness, suggests a pendulum swing between two interrelated positions still in tension. By analyzing how these narratives stage the fraught interaction between the black and the bourgeois, Jenkins offers renewed attention to class as a framework for the study of black life--a necessary shift in an age of rapidly increasing income inequality and societal stratification.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e thus challenges the assumed link between blackness and poverty that has become so ingrained in the United States, reminding us that privileged subjects, too, are \"classed.\" This book offers, finally, a rigorous and nuanced grasp of how African Americans live within complex, intersecting identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Candice M. Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 151790580X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517905804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020","brand":"Candice M. Jenkins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088507646207,"sku":"9781517905804","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f572ab50-7719-4548-8273-8d845da9bcd5.jpg?v=1769105153","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-bourgeois-candice-m-jenkins-9781517905804","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}