This report studies the Oakland, California black elite. They have historically fulfilled the role of intermediary between the black masses and the white power structure. The aim of the report is to deterimne how the Afro-American elites of Oakland define their position and those of black Americans generally. It also analyzes the blacks' definitions of their situations as intermediaries. Other data analyzed in this study includes attitudes on school busing and attitudes on integration and black nationalism. The interviews on which this study is based were conducted in the spring and summer of 1973. Three hundred and fifty new urban elites and 350 traditional elites made up the population from which 70 and 35, respectively, were interviewed. The data indicated that there is very little ideological-difference in the area of race relations between the new urban elites and the traditional black middle-class. The ideology of both groups is essentially integrationist, but their frustrations with American society has angered some who indicate a preference for autonomy in some situations. There is also a minority that is separatist. (Author/AM)