Among the aims of the festival are: 1) to ensure the revival, resurgence, and propagation of black and African culture and black and African cultural values and civilization, and 2) to promote black and African artists, performers, and writers and facilitate their world acceptance. (Author/AM)

FESTAC 1977 was the culmination of the many investigations, diversity of expression and the myriad ways black people are identifiable with African heritage. (Author)

This is a working bibliography on published materials on black studies programs in the United States. It includes books, pamphlets, articles, dissertations, general reference works, and current black periodicals. It also includes a listing of United States libraries with major black history book collections. (Author/AM)

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)

Contends that the question of what Black Americans call themselves is a nonissue that diverts attention from larger problems without contributing to their solution. Traces widespread crime, poverty, educational failure, and institutional breakdown to the erosion of Black family and community values, and urges the reversal of this trend. (AF)

Discusses ways in which selected factors limit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention efforts in African-American communities, focusing on the stigma associated with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), reliance on traditional models of health, and the lack of funding for needed services and research. (SLD)

The construction of hypotheses concerning blacks in America requires an understanding of two enduring influences on collective black experience: (1) whites' treatment of blacks as slaves and (2) West African culture that helped to shape black adaptation to the conditions engendered by slavery. White racist attitudes and the psychological distance…

Methods and resources available for teaching about black culture and history in Africa and America are evaluated. An introductory essay, "The Black Experience: A Historical Overview," emphasizes aspects of black history which most black scholars deem relevant for correcting error and distortion, filling gaps of knowledge, and helping black youth…

Debate concerning "African-American" as a better racial/ethnic designator than "Black" has become a major public issue. While proponents of the term argue that it gives Blacks a land and culture to mark their identity and experience, others consider the question irrelevant to the solution of serious socioeconomic problems. (AF)

Describes an Africentric model for training psychologists who deliver Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education, prevention, and services within the African-American community. Principles of the NTU philosophy (a Bantu concept) and Nguzo Saba were used in training 75 African-American psychologists to deliver prevention services. (SLD)

This research study on the black family was based on the position that black culture in the U.S. is the result of a special admixture of the continuation of an African world-view or cultural perspective which operates within the perspective of an Anglo-American world-view. Because this research is guided by this position, it is viewed as a…

Presents an exploratory examination of the causes of social distance characterizing the association between Africans and African Americans. African American's perceptions about Africa and Africans are assessed through anecdotes and impressions, and thoughts and criticisms of Africans about African Americans are considered. A social science…

Over 740 films (16 mm.) concerning the lives, culture, history, and problems of Black people in the United States and in Africa are listed alphabetically by title in this guide. Each entry includes the running time, a synopsis of the film's content, and a source code and tells whether the film is in black-and-white or in color. The guide includes…