Associate Professor
krlacy@umich.eduOffice Information:
4152 LSA Building
phone: 734.647.3339
Inequalities and Stratification; Politics and Social Change; Qualitative Approaches; Race and Ethnicity; Social Psychology and Interaction; Sociology of Culture; Urban and Community Sociology; Sociology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Harvard University, 2000
Highlighted Work and Publications
Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class
Karyn Lacy
Description from Publisher: As Karyn R. Lacy's innovative work in the suburbs of Washington, DC, reveals, there is a continuum of middle-classness among blacks, ranging from lower-middle class to middle-middle class to upper-middle class. Focusing on the latter two, Lacy explores an increasingly important social and demographic group: middle-class blacks who live in middle-class suburbs where poor blacks are not present. These "blue-chip black" suburbanites earn well over fifty thousand dollars annually and work in predominantly white professional environments. ...
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