certainty including wd the voice and his conceptualization of the talented comic if franklin frazier's work, many of james baldwin's writings, mary for tiller's work, black picket fences, lawrence oden graham's book, are kind of people and perhaps most recently sag harbor. the-- they all engage the complex sensibilities around aspiration, ambition, achievement, anxiety as well as notions of responsibility that impact this group. the black 1%, if you will, has not existed without controversy within the black community. issues of classism, color is him, snobbery and the internalization of dominant and white notions of respect ability and beauty have at times been contentious. for some, its members are a success story. a group that has made it despite racism advancing their race in the cause a better race relations. they have been praised and admired especially in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as representing the best and brightest of the race. as well as a class that could most easily develop relations with whites. they have also been critiqued, especially since the publication

devil, justice and the talented 10, so there are certain sociological text that to take up a franklin frazier, black sociology i read etiquette books, manners books to remind myself of these rules and regulations. i read about housing or read at books on housing. you have to cast you know, your eye in many many many directions and it make sure anxious because on thoughtful i have a scholarly, but i am not a formal scholar. my training as a critic helped because i'm used to going in a lot of directions, but that chapter took a long time because i wanted it to be dynamic, but not drab, but not simplistic. >> i thought it was fascinating how you went from first person to third person so many ways you're going in and out as a writer taking us through this journey. >> sometimes on the foldable character and that also interested me in terms of memoir, the form of that, how many personae are populating the page, but also it seemed honest with the devil and sometimes triple identities that i was confronting. i keep using the word negotiations and there is that cryptic also of class, race and gender.