Martin Kilson. in The
Black Society Public ~ntekt(summer 1981), P.O. Box
542, Old Chelsea, New York, N.Y. 10011.
The decline of black family median income relative to white families1- from 62 percent in 1975 to 57 percent today-is widely taken as a sign that black economic progress has slowed. But Kilson, a Harvard politi- cal scientist, contends that this aggregate "lag" masks the emergence of two black classes-the "haves," an employed black majority who have "made it"...