TIME:Your book focuses specifically on marriage patterns within the black "middle class" of educated professionals. Why focus your research so narrowly?

你的书主要关注黑人中受过良好教育的“中产阶级”的婚姻模式。为什么把研究对象范围缩这么窄？

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They helped create an influential black electorate and black middle class.

他们帮助建立起了有影响力的黑人选举力量和中产阶级。

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He used evidence of a rising black middle class to argue that race alone can't explain the plight of black Americans.

他举了日益壮大的黑人中产阶级为例，论证说就种族主义本身而言，不能完全解释美国黑人的困境。

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Its large rooms and affordable rent gave middle class black people a new kind of housing opportunity in the nineteen sixties.

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So what we see in the publishing history of Black Boy and also in its reception brings us back to those questions that I was raising at the beginning of class.

黑孩子》的出版经历,以及出版之后的反响,让我们又回到了我一开始提到的那些问题。

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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.

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The complete absence of a black middle class allowed most advertisers to ignore black tastes and aspirations.

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Why should not cities that are most welcoming to the black middle class be so rewarded?

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