Our Kind of People: America’s Black Upper Class

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By Lawrence Otis Graham ’83

Published Oct. 31, 2017

Lawrence Otis Graham  ’83, one of the country’s most well-known speakers on race and class, spent six years interviewing the wealthiest black families in America, culminating in the first book ever written about the black elite by a member of that class. In Our Kind of People: America’s Black Upper Class (Harper Perennial), Graham tells the stories of million-dollar homes, summers in Martha’s Vineyard — of obsessions with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion.

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