The Other Brahmins: Boston's Black Upper Class 1750-1950

by Adelaide M. Cromwell

Adelaide Cromwell's pioneering work explores race and the social caste system in an atypical northern environment over a period of two centuries. Based on scholarly sources, interviews, and questionnaires, the study identifies those blacks in Boston who exercised political, economic, and social leadership from the end of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. The central focus is a comparison of black and white upper-class women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155728301X
• ISBN13: 9781557283016
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"