An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. Membership in the Links, Jack & Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. Summers in Martha's Vineyard and Sag Harbor. His examination of the history of this elite - who refer to themselves as "our crowd" - serves as a first-person look at a small, tightly knit group that has wielded an increasingly large amount of power and prestige.ĭebutante cotillions. In Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, Graham focuses his sights on the black upper class, looking at the people, places, and objects it comprises. In 1995, Lawrence Otis Graham wrote a first-person account of his observations of institutional racism perpetuated at an elite country club- Member of the Club Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
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