#  Karyn Renita Lacy 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Karyn Lacy's Website](https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/krlacy.html) 

 

 



 

 (Sociology, June 2000)  
*Thesis Title:* Negotiating Black Identities: The Construction and Use of Social Boundaries Among Middle-Class Black Suburbanites  
*Committee:* Christopher Winship (Chair), Mary C. Waters, Lawrence D. Bobo, Gwendolyn Dordick  
*Initial Placement:* Assistant Professor, Emory University  
*Current Position:* [Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan](https://lsa.umich.edu/soc/people/faculty/krlacy.html)

 Karyn Lacy is associate professor of sociology and African American studies at the University of Michigan. She earned her PhD from Harvard University, is a Ford Fellow, and was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her work focuses on race relations, residential segregation, identity, parental socialization, social stratification, and suburban culture. Her book *Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class* (University of California Press) received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award, and she is a contributing writer to media outlets including the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Lacy's current work explores the construction and reproduction of racial and class-based identities among members of an elite children's organization.



 

 

 





 

 

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