Quote of the Month: December 2017 - Mary Patillo

Quote of the Month (12/17):

“African Americans, like other groups, have always tried to translate upward class mobility into geographic mobility, but remain physically and psychically close to the poorer neighborhoods they leave behind.”

Mary Patillo

Harold Washington Professor of Sociology

and African American Studies

Northwestern University

Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

(1999)