Ah, that's the problem of the black bourgeoisie, my friend.

Sugar Hill, a ritzy neighborhood for the black bourgeoisie.

The strident defense of Farrakhan by middle-class students bespoke Farrakhan's growing popularity with the black bourgeoisie.

These black performers became stars within the broad African-American community, but were largely ignored or condemned by the black bourgeoisie.

But the scars, carried since childhood, are still around, certainly among many older members of the black bourgeoisie.

Unlike most jazz musicians, Sun Ra was not a child of the black bourgeoisie.

- indicates the black bourgeoisie's inability to understand precisely what their success means to themselves or to blacks generally.

"The author is a snob, she is very much an ancestor of the black bourgeoisie," Professor Gates said in a telephone interview.

Hats were dismissed as symbols of oppression for women and status symbols of the black bourgeoisie.

The book is not about the "wounds within," "repressed rage" and "denial" carried through life by an "older member of the black bourgeoisie."