Response To Balck Bourgeoise

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of shell of the middle class white world that rejected them. Therefore, the black bourgeoisie lives in what Frazier calls a cultural vacuum, disdainful of the culture of most African-Americans, dismissed by the white middle class culture. Finally, Frazier discusses the result of this displacement on the black middle class. Because the black bourgeoisie buys into the ideals of white America more and is simultaneously more exposed to its hostility, their sense of inferiority is compounded. They seek to fill this void in two ways. First, they look more to the material gains they have made into the middle class culture and place more importance on those. Secondly, they have created a “make believe world” in which they hold a great deal of influence and significance. This false notion of the place of the black bourgeoisie in American life is what Frazier proposes to discuss and debunk in the next sections.
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