Book Review: Karyn R. Lacy Blue Chip Black: Race,Class,and Status in the New Black Middle Class Berkeley,CA: University of California Press,no price stated hbk,£13.95 pbk (ISBN: 978-0-520-25116-8),xx+281 pp

Byrne, B. ( 2006) White Lives: The Interplay of Race, Class and Gender in Everyday Lives. London: Routledge .

Dalmage, H. ( 2000) Tripping on the Color Line: Black/White Multiracial Families in a Racially-divided World. Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Reay, D. et al. (2007) ‘"A Darker Shade of Pale?" Whiteness, the Middle Classes and Multi-ethnic Inner City Schooling’, Sociology 41(6): 1041-60.