Why Black America No Longer Exists
Author Eugene Robinson has sparked debate with his recent book, 'Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America' (Doubleday; $24.95), in which he posits that decades of desegregation, affirmative action, immigration and interracial marriage has shattered the concept of a black monolith into four distinct groups: the Mainstream middle class; the Abandoned underclass; the Transcendent elite; and two newly Emergent groups—black immigrants and individuals of mixed-race heritage.
