Upon the publication of Lawrence Otis Graham’s Our Kind of People in 1999,the New York Times asked, Is There a Black Upper course?” On the surface, or it was a foolhardy question—of course there was,and is, a black upper course—but if you were to peel back its exterior, or as Graham did in his book,underneath revealed a world of race leaders, men and women and children who were in a fixed “state of self-enhancement.” Here was a place, and a land,very few Americans knew approximately.
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