ABSTRACT
BASED ON ANECDOTAL, MORE SO THAN EMPIRICAL DATA, WRITINGS ABOUT relations within African American socioeconomic hierarchies have dualistically characterized these as either conflicting or cooperatively uplifting. The conflict model portrays black PMW as an isolated and white-identified population (Frazier 1957; Hare 1965). The movement of upwardly mobile blacks to suburban communities is often cited as proof of this disconnect or disjuncture (Wilson 1978; 1987).
