by Lawrence Otis Graham

A provocative and important study of the world of privileged African Americans. Debutante cotillions, Million-dollar homes, Summers in Martha's Vineyard, Membership in the Links, Jack and Jill, Deltas, Boule, and AKAs. An obsession with the right schools, families, social clubs, and skin complexion. This is the world of the black upper class and the focus of the first book written about the black elite by a member of this hard-to-penetrate group.