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.
