The Good, the Black and the Boujee will be a memoir-led exploration of two of the most high-profile and vocal but unrecorded groups in the UK - the Black elite and the new, emerging Black middle class. Over the past twenty years the expansion of the middle classes has reinvented Britain''s old model of class. In that time Black Britons have quietly risen to the pinnacle of some of the nation''s most visible industries despite the dominant media narratives.

Vorwort
A groundbreaking non-fiction book about the Black elite and the new, emerging Black middle class.

Autorentext
Symeon Brown is a correspondent on Channel 4 News and the author of Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition & Deceit in the New Influencer Economy. He has worked for the Guardian and the Black Cultural Archives. Symeon's journalism has won a Medical Journalists' Association Award and a Criminal Justice Alliance Outstanding Journalism Award and been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and a British Journalism Award; he was nominated for a BAFTA as executive editor of Channel 4 News' Black to Front special. Symeon was also seconded to Channel 4 as a commissioning executive in current affairs and specialist factual between 2022-2023, where he was part of the team that launched the new youth documentary strand Untold. He graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies, lives in London and supports Arsenal.

Klappentext

A landmark portrait of modern Britain, The Good, the Black and the Boujee is a critical reckoning with the pursuit of 'black excellence'.

From broadcasters and lawyers to content creators, actors and politicians, black professionals appear to have become leaders of Britain's most visible, profitable and culture-defining industries. Yet educated black professionals say racism is entrenched and rising to the top has never been harder. So what is going on? How have they ascended? At what expense? And what does the expansion of a black middle class mean for all black people in Britain?

National correspondent Symeon Brown has undertaken the largest known data study of Britain's black middle class and elite to compile a social history and critique of the new black middle class. With style, depth and an incisive eye, Brown unravels the web of class and gender that shapes black Britain today and reconciles the cultural and political conversations surrounding black British identity with the present reality. Whether dissecting the preference of educated black women to be single, the rise of black Conservative power brokers or how the triumph and assimilation of black elites mask the barriers facing the black working class, Brown renders visible the psychological and material cost of class aspiration.

More than a simple portrait of class in motion, The Good, the Black and the Boujee is a forensic study of how race, capital and identity entwine - and what's lost, gained and discovered through social mobility.

Zusammenfassung
A groundbreaking non-fiction book about the Black elite and the new, emerging Black middle class.