Rudolph Giuliani, they argue, has taken the sting out of New York's racial politics, and the growing black middle class is supporting younger managerial black politicians, not racial ambulance-chasers.
The complete absence of a black middle class allowed most advertisers to ignore black tastes and aspirations.
Why should not cities that are most welcoming to the black middle class be so rewarded?
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The black middle class is growing by 50% every year and fuelling a consumer boom.
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Mr Flake, a former congressman, has become a voice of the emerging black middle class.
And at least some of the evidence about the moderation of the new black middle class is equivocal.
Only when such a black middle class emerges will the country really shed the divisions of the past.
Drop into any mall here in Joburg and you will see how quickly that black middle class is growing and thriving.
The lucky half who escaped that fate are a group apart, although they have not formed a self-conscious, American-style black middle class.
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Many reckon that, in attempting to create a black middle class by fiat, Mr Mbeki is putting the cart before the horse.
It's true that Jo' burg has a growing black middle class, but it also has a growing divide between its haves and have-nots.
Many of Ntezo's customers are part of a newly affluent black professional class that is an increasingly significant demographic in postapartheid South Africa.
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We are seeing the emergence of an enormous black middle class.
They helped create an influential black electorate and black middle class.
There is a lot of talk about a growing black middle class, but the number of people living on the poverty line may actually be rising.
Hillbrow, once the favoured destination of the emerging black middle class, was its funkiest nightclub district a decade ago (some guidebooks still urge tourists to go there).
Came to the bookstore and read to the avid interest of the black people assembled there about his chronicle of the upper middle class black people he wanted the world to know about.
White middle-class families are more than twice as likely to own stock as black middle-class families.
" Mr. Rose explains: "This was what we thought about these middle-class black kids.
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This remark would seem to have been spot-on on two counts, for both men are black and middle class.
The son of a Chicago English professor, West made his mark by dressing preppy and wrapping about black middle-class angst.
Angela Bassett is a failed actress who returns to the black middle-class beach town she left when she became pregnant at fifteen.
"Waiting to Exhale, " is about four middle-class black women looking for happiness.
Ms Figueiredo has found that the parents of many members of this emerging black middle-class held public-sector jobs, which were fairly secure, offering a stepping-stone.
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First World Brazil is broadly Southern, white and European - though there is a sizeable black middle-class - and Third World Brazil is largely to be found in the poorer North-East.
But where, we might ask, is the comic purpose when a white, British, college-educated comedian adopts a camp disguise, goes on a combustible daytime TV show, and toys with the more conservative prejudices of an audience largely composed of working-class black women?
To combat the (presumed) flight of its middle-class population, Baltimore created the More in the Middle program in 2008, dedicated to convincing middle-class black families to remain in the city by helping them form financial ties in the area, such as facilitating home ownership, business ownership and higher education.
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