Buppie

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Buppie is short for "Black Urban Professional," and is the African American subset of the Yuppie category. The group includes Black professionals and executives in their late twenties and early thirties, sometimes extending into the baby boomers.

The term is sometimes used in derogatory fashion to discuss Black Americans who place an extreme emphasis on materialism.

[edit] Further reading

Official Buppie Handbook (Black Urban Professional, by Thayer William Staples and Katherine McMillan Staples. (1985) ISBN 0-937071-00-5

Salon.com, April 29, 2004. "Meet the buppies: A decade into democracy, South Africa's elite blacks prosper. But their glitz and glam hide a world-class inequality that only gets worse", by Jenifer Abrahamson

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