In order to provide data concerning the characteristics of Negro students enrolling in predominantly white colleges, a study was made of a group of Negro beginning freshmen at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois. (JM)

A study of teacher reactions to pupils during reading group instruction found that: (1) there are no significant differences between Black and White teachers in their responses to pupils' academic activities; and that (2) Black students get significantly more negative feedback from teachers than do White students. (Author/MJL)

Two hundred Black and White male college students were questioned to determine personality needs, perception of a wife's financial contribution, and need to play a masculine role in relation to their preferences for a traditional or nontraditional future wife. Data were analyzed according to race and other mediating variables. (GC)

Examines the work of African American psychologist and social-educational anthropologist Allison Davis, focusing on his three major sociological studies. The relevance and implications of his research and his ideas about the American school curriculum are discussed. (SLD)

Examines attitudes of 173 black thinkers about racial and ethnic identity and membership in the intellectual subsociety, and establishes an empirical basis for thinking about African American intellectuals. Survey responses and follow-up interviews with 20 subjects indicate the existence of marked differences between black and white intellectuals.…

Presents a critical assessment of two major schools of thought in the human sciences relative to the mythology of race: logical positivism and social realism. It argues that the science that supports racist arguments must be questioned. An alternative science that socially empowers the oppressed is proposed. (GR)

Examined the strengths and needs of working- and middle-class African-American and European-American grandmothers. Surveys revealed that African-American grandmothers perceived themselves as significantly more involved in teaching their grandchildren and more likely to need information about various aspects of their grandchildren's lives.…

Oppositional culture accounts for race/ethnic differences in school achievement and the theory explains why male students tend to receive lower grades despite standardized test scores that equal or exceed the scores of female students. It is concluded that resistance to school is gender based and researchers should be more sensitive to gender…

Lower class black and lower class white first-grade children learned an unorganized and an organized list of words to test Jensen's hypothesis of racial differences in mental abilities. Both groups of children performed significantly better on the organized list with comparable means for each list. Most of the predicted relationships were not…

Attempts to expand the research in the area of occupational choice by developing and analyzing a causal model of the occupational aspiration process for black and white rural youth which relates socioeconomic status, academic performance and occupational aspirations. (Author/JM)

Discusses an intervention program designed to provide the disadvantaged male with a competent model, a set of appropriate roles, and an opportunity for positive, role-derived interaction. (JM)

Examines black adolescence and schooling within the conceptual framework of mediated action theory by analyzing the discourses of six black high school students. These discourses connect the concepts of "space," relating to the body, and "place," in the sense of arrangement of public institutions, to the political construction…

Critiques the ways problems confronting black males are framed and acted on, focusing on the role of race and gender in the development of interventions. Drawing on research at an urban California high school, the article presents recommendations for programs aimed at the needs of black males that avoid marginalizing those targeted. (SLD)

Investigated young people's perception of race, class, and language bias in the court system, surveying youth from diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds who were detained at a training school or enrolled in a community program. Minority respondents were more negative in their perceptions of judges and court workers than were nonminority respondents.…