Karyn Lacy is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She is a Ford Fellow and was a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Her work focuses on the black middle class, race relations, residential segregation, identity, parental socialization, and suburban inequality. She is the author of the award-winning book, Blue-Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Lacy’s public writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vox, Public Seminar, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.