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Unlike most jazz musicians, Sun Ra was not a child of the black bourgeoisie.
The city is for the aristocracy, and the suburbs are for the bourgeoisie.
Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (raising funds, balancing budgets, recruiting professors, planning conferences), served as director of editorial content for a publishing imprint he co-founded, was a consultant on Steven Spielberg's Amistad , scripted and hosted a Frontline documentary on the black bourgeoisie, and developed a six-part BBC-PBS documentary on Africa--the entire continent.
He made vicious fun of the English bourgeoisie in plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest . The same bourgeoisie packed London houses and made him a fortune without realizing the joke was on them.
The bourgeoisie showed off its new prosperity with extravagant furnishings, silks, satins, and baubles, and in 1852 Paris opened its first department store, Au Bon Marché.