3. The Crosby Show fallacy is the idea that the black middle class is just like the white middle class except skin color. That's not case.
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4. Summing up a plethora of research, TNC notes black middle class has very different experience than white counterparts.
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5. Black middle class has less capital, lives in poorer neighborhoods, suffers more violence, etc. etc.
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6. All these differences shouldn't surprise us given history of racism, segregation, limits on economic opportunity, etc.
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8. I think this failure is not just one of not engaging with literature, but a failure of imagination.
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9. C. Wright Mills talked about "the sociological imagination" -- ability to see not just data but lived reality of social system.
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10. TNC's critics can't imagine what it's like to be, say, black teacher, living in poorer neighborhood, with poorer relatives etc.
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11. Implicit in arguments TNC is having with his critics is differing views of culture.
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12. TNC's critics talk, vaguely, about culture holding back blacks. But he (correctly I'd say) is interested in cultural capital.
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13. Cultural capital includes all those pieces of implicit knowledge & connections middle class passes on to kids.
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14. Cultural capital can be acquired in different ways, of course, but let's face it: one big way to get it is to have plain old capital.
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15. About TNC's essay on learning French, reminded of Chekhov on Tolstoy: What he acquired as a birthright, we had to pay with our youth.
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