I can see it in the beginning when a black doctor, lawyer, etc needed people to socialize, network with, etc. But what is so great about black people aping the worst characteristics of the white oligarchy? Light skin, straight hair, money,jockeying to get into exclusive clubs. It's so shallow and meaningless unless status and money are what you think is most important in this life.

I'm all for success. But the content of one's character is what counts in my opinion.

the book is tedious and not well written.

Great reading about the affluent black social clubs, camps, schools and other aspects of the lifestyle

certainly well written... sad state is that colorism still exists... I am with Benilde Little when she wrote... "where are the regular black people";)

Similar to Negroland - but more gossipy and less thoughtful. A social register for African Americans around the nation.