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Chapter 32. The Negro Class Structure 705
Educarion, family background, and respectability have no significance.
The upper and middle classes of this shady society have a certain prestige
with the lower classes of the general Negro society in the cities. For this
reason, vice and crime can appear as a desirable career to almost any lower
class urban youth. This shady Negro society has a parallel in the white
world, but the shady white society probably has less general prestige.®
The foregoing picture of the Negro class structure is, like most other
descriptions, static. Actually, however, the Negro class structure is dynamic:
not only is there movement between the classes and changes within each of
the classes, but also the entire class system is moving upward. We have set
forth our specifications for a study of class structure and the Negro commu-
nity, which takes into account this dynamic perspective, in Appendix 8.
* See Chapter 14, Section 10,
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