Social science literature dealing with Chicanos has long pointed to the importance of the family. Unfortunately, many of the generalizations that have been accepted rest on unproved assumptions and rely on negative and stereotyped descriptions. Future research must examine the impact of external social forces on internal family interaction. (RLV)

Examines the need for a comprehensive study of Black societies in the Americas. Attributes paucity of research to geographic, economic, and language issues as well as ethnocentrism among Black scholars in the United States, and the lack of cooperation with Carribean and Latin American scholars. (JCD)

Challenges the view of Chinese and Japanese Americans as middlemen with its assumptions that Asian Americans are sojourners and unassimilable. Questions the equation of a middle class minority with a middleman minority, examining the roots of this myth in the relationship of Asian Americans to the White-Black racial dyad. (RDN)

Reviews the historical development of multicultural education in Toronto (Ontario), and considers the relevance of different models. Argues that present educational policy continues to preserve an Anglo-Saxon hegemony. (FMW)