The real crisis in Black education is a crisis of culture. It is a crisis of culture because culture, as the medium wherein life is defined and developed, is where the meaning of being human is found. Culture, though multifaceted, is where human beings give fundamental expression to their meaning, possibility and potential. Hence, the crisis in…

Asserts that black mental health professionals must, in addition to providing services, seek out the causes of black mental health, arguing that instead of physical slavery, black people are victims of mental enslavement, which is predicted upon and maintained by Western social science and scholarship. (Author/JM)

Distinctive theoretical features characterizing research in the area of the self-concept are related to investigations into the nature of the black self-concept; a modification of Mead's symbolic interactional approaches is developed; the epistemologic grounding of the research reviewed makes it inapplicable to blacks. (Author/JM)

Responds to two opening articles by Parham ("Cycles of Psychological Nigrescence") and Helms ("Considering Some Methodological Issues in Racial Identity Counseling Research"). The epistemological foundations of the (Non-African-based) source model of Black identity are examined from an Afrocentric perspective. (TE)