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Two years ago, Perry toured with A Madea Christmas, which brings a ritzy family of Cape Cod buppies into collision with their down-home kin — “the black Beverly Hillbillies.”

From Time • Dec. 13, 2013

But in this case, there's a cultural shift instead: from affluent white Brits to American buppies in Los Angeles.

From Time • Apr. 16, 2010

Combining upscale jazz and proletarian hip hop, Digable Planets has brought two sides of the black experience together, uniting buppies and b-boys from Howard University to Howard Beach.

From Time Magazine Archive

Increasingly, however, they lead to the gates of grandiose homes built amid the matchbox slums by a new class of upwardly mobile black professionals and entrepreneurs known, like their American counterparts, as "buppies."

From Time Magazine Archive