Voices from Beneath the Veil: Analysis of the Trails, Tribulations, and Triumphs of Middle Class African Americans

This book is about race relations that tell the stories of successful African Americans as they negotiate through the turbulence of everyday life. The author conducted a national interview with over two hundred middle class African American respondents. The experiences of these middle class African Americans suggest the need for: -an Afrocentric perspective of the Black experience -a reconstruction of assimilation and marginality theories to more adequately account for the experiences of African Americans -a theory of oppositional culture that demonstrates how African Americans are resisting and changing the traditional ways of thinking about Black/White relations.

Michael E. Hodge, Ph.D., is associate professor of sociology at Morehouse College.