Dec 20, 2007
For years, social science has defined the middle-class family as a married couple, typically with children. But a new study out of UNC-Chapel Hill challenges that definition, particularly for the African-American population. Host Frank Stasio gets an update on who is achieving and maintaining middle-class status in the black community from Kris Marsh, of the Carolina Population Center; Walter Farell, a UNC professor of Social Work; and, John Morton, a program director at Pew Charitable Trusts.
To link to the program, click on the link below and scroll down to “The Black Middle Class” which aired on December 19, 2007.
Dr. Marsh’s research also appeared in the Durham Herald-Sun (“Redefining the black middle class,” December 19, 2007.) Click the link below to read the entire article:
http://www.heraldsun.com/orange/10-908467.cfm
To read the UNC press release, click here:
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/dec07/marsh121707.html