In recent years, much of the standard analysis of the black underclass has been challenged.

Because if the black middle class abandons the black underclass, there will be no hope.

The families on 129th street are no different than others in American cities with a growing and increasingly desperate black underclass.

And what you realize is that he's writing about a black and white underclass.

Among the findings were these: * Women make up 78 percent of the black underclass.

At the same time, a vast black underclass is swelling.

For the black underclass, however, formidable obstacles remained, but they were more economic than racial.

Of all the problems on the racial landscape, none seems harder than helping the people called the "black underclass."

Crime has converted white concern for the urban, mostly black underclass into fear and anger.

However, what effect have these individual success stories had on the lives of the members of America's black underclass?