Access to quality education for all children is a common mantra for countless national and world organizations, such as the UN and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper examines the struggle within two nations who continue to move beyond the impact of racial segregation in the United States (US) and "apartheid" in South…

The paper highlights the violations of students' human rights in schools. The problem is the incident that took place at a school in Pretoria in 2016 where Black girls protested against the School's Code of Conduct relating to hairstyle. Qualitative approach was used to collect information through a literature review and desk-top research methods.…

This paper explores academics' interaction in an online forum, situated on the intranet of a South African university, where perceptions of racism within a larger discourse about transformation are shared and debated. The communicative model of democratic discourse directs the interpretation of an emancipatory discursive interaction, following a…

Defines the concept of racism and provides background on racism in the United States. Statistics showing the status of minority groups in the areas of the economy, government, housing, education, media, and health are presented. Attitudes toward Black managers in the corporate world are discussed, and several experiences with racism and prejudice…

Aptitude and achievement subtest scores (Ohio Survey Test) of 181 male eighth grade students were factor analyzed. Subjects were classified into four groups on the basis of ethnicity (black and white) and socioeconomic status (SES) (low and middle). Performance on nine tests developed by Guilford, as well as students' grade point averages in…

Analysis of Black federal-level political executives since 1969 shows a significant increase in the number of Blacks holding presidential appointments. Black appointees are basically similar to their White counterparts in terms of social background and career patterns. In addition, they feel a relatively high degree of racial solidarity. (CMG)

John J. Gumperz' interactional analysis goes beyond traditional work in discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and ethnography and may, ultimately, lead to the development of new sociolinguistic theory regarding problematic interaction. The likelihood of the development of theory will be significantly impacted by Gumperz' ability to: (1)…

The effects of stress on the psychosocial well-being of older persons have been well documented. Research on stress among the aged has generally considered recent life events as salient stressors in late life and has focussed on older persons without regard to racial differences. Interviews were conducted with 400 elderly black and white residents…

This paper notes that most Americans believe that Black African firms operate their businesses along European lines. Within America's business community, the study of Black Africa now enters its third decade of benign neglect. Reasons for Americans remaining blind to Black African business principles include ignorance of Africa's complex past,…

Traditionally the sex ratio has been the domain of demographers and social biologists. This study takes the societal phenomenon of sex ratio imbalance as context, but focuses on the social psychological impact of perceived mate availability. One-half the contents of the 1989 Southern California Social Survey was devoted to the issue of mate…

Focusing on gender as a stimulus variable, this study explored whether performer and respondent's gender and ethnicity would affect the labeling of toddler behavior. In addition, such demographic variables as age, education level, and contact with children were investigated. From a subject pool of 928, a total of 528 subjects were drawn, equally…

This study investigated whether readers of newspaper crime reports make assumptions about the racial identity of criminals from news accounts that make no explicit race references. Simulated crime stories given to respondents were experimentally varied on the factors of (1) urban character of the crime location (urban versus suburban), (2) ethnic…

Evaluated use of linguistic-intergroup bias (LIB) approach (A. Maass, D. Salvi, L. Arcuri, and G. Semin, 1989) to measure prejudice in 65 European-American college students. Term "modern racism" used to describe certain European Americans' conflict between egalitarian beliefs and residual negative affect toward African Americans. As…

Using a sample of college students assembled in groups of dyads representing all possible combinations of gender and race, this study sought to determine whether attributions made by conversational participants about each other are a function of the time patterns of their verbal interaction. It was found that the participants' pause and switching…

Twenty pairs of Black and White school-labeled educable mentally retarded students (10-12 years old) were matched for deviation social quotients to determine if differences existed in academic achievement and learner self concept on a racial basis. Analysis of scores on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test and The Florida Key revealed…