Gerri Major's Black Society

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Summary: A cultural awakening for all who read it!!!
Review: "If nobody writes about you, you are thought not to exist. Through this work you will see that the black upper class is an acknowledged institution in cities all over the country. Great families that set the standards, style, and tone of Society are examined with great respect. An account of the origins and impeccable histories of some of the most prominent black families is told with such depth that it makes it hard to put this book down. If the black experience is going to be told it must be told from all aspects. Gerri Majors must be commended for sharing her life with us.

Rating:
Summary: A cultural awakening for all who read it!!!
Review: "If nobody writes about you, you are thought not to exist. Through this work you will see that the black upper class is an acknowledged institution in cities all over the country. Great families that set the standards, style, and tone of Society are examined with great respect. An account of the origins and impeccable histories of some of the most prominent black families is told with such depth that it makes it hard to put this book down. If the black experience is going to be told it must be told from all aspects. Gerri Majors must be commended for sharing her life with us.

Rating:
Summary: Great historical detail of early African Americans
Review: This book was filled with black history from the days since slavery into the first half of the twentieth century. Ms. Majors was immersed in African American upper class society and knew her subject well. I would recommend this book before Lawrence o. Graham's "Our Kind of People". There were some outdated attitudes in relation to that groups fixation on skin color but otherwise an insightful discourse.

Rating:
Summary: Great historical detail of early African Americans
Review: This book was filled with black history from the days since slavery into the first half of the twentieth century. Ms. Majors was immersed in African American upper class society and knew her subject well. I would recommend this book before Lawrence o. Graham's "Our Kind of People". There were some outdated attitudes in relation to that groups fixation on skin color but otherwise an insightful discourse.