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Newman, Dorothy K. – Humanist, 1979
Notes prevailing racial standards in employment, health care, income security, and education. Discusses continuing segregation in schools and housing. Suggests that the elements of Humanism provide practical solutions for this dilemma. Journal availability: see SO 507 190. (KC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Change Agents, Futures (of Society), Housing
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DuBois, David L.; Hirsch, Barton J. – Child Development, 1990
Examined school and neighborhood friendships of 292 Black junion high school students and White junior high school students. Findings suggest that there may be important differences in peer friendship networks of Blacks and Whites. Results also suggest the importance of school and nonschool settings in friendship patterns of the two groups. (PCB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Friendship, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
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Schofield, Janet W. – Educational Policy, 1993
Suggests that desegregation should be seen as an ongoing process rather than a specific event. More attention should be given to shaping students' experiences in desegregated schools to foster positive intergroup relations. School staff must work to avoid resegregation and create a cooperative environment in which minority and majority members…
Descriptors: Blacks, Change Strategies, Desegregation Effects, Elementary Secondary Education
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Wilson, Margaret Bush; Gatewood, Diane Ridley – Update on Law-Related Education, 1999
Analyzes four significant court cases that span the rise of a body of jurisprudence in the United States known as civil rights law. Describes each of these cases in detail showing the profound impact they have had on the rights of all citizens and, in particular, African Americans. (CMK)
Descriptors: Blacks, Citizenship, Civil Law, Civil Rights
Noel, Donald L. – 1966
Strong positive identification with a specific group is potentially both functional and dysfunctional for the solidarity of an encompassing larger social system. The impact of strong ethnic group identification upon societal integration is here explored by analyzing data obtained from 515 Negroes as part of the Cornell Studies in Intergroup…
Descriptors: Administration, Black Power, Blacks, Ethnic Groups
Sivanandan, A., Comp. – 1969
This edition of this select bibliography has been compiled on the basis of interest, point of view, and usefulness to the reader. The subject division of the contents (determined according to reader usefulness) includes bibliographies listing: education and family; adjustment and integration; area studies; associations, organizations, and pressure…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Bibliographies, Blacks, Education
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Abbott, Carl – Phylon, 1978
Problems of cultural incompatibility among Colorado's ethnic groups have not been resolved by official gestures in the direction of racial harmony; nor have economic gains meant social integration for these groups. Anglos still hold the dominant position they gained in the nineteenth century. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Mexican Americans
Taylor, D. Garth; And Others – Scientific American, 1978
The fourth in a series of reports on racial attitudes shows that U.S. whites have increased their support of integration at a steady pace, with a striking period of more rapid change between 1970 and 1972. (Author/MA)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavioral Science Research, Blacks
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King, Edmund – International Review of Education, 1979
Because South Africa has a critical shortage of skilled industrial personnel, new work opportunities are appearing for the disadvantaged Black majority. This will, in turn, require a rapid reorientation of the country's educational system, especially at the postcompulsory level, to provide Blacks with the necessary vocational skills. (SJL)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Blacks, Educational Change, Equal Education
Jelinek, Pauline – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1989
Research studies indicate that Blacks are not readily accepted in White neighborhoods, regardless of income and educational level, while Asians and Hispanics move easily into mainstream neighborhoods in relation to increased education, employment, and income. (FMW)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Blacks, Ethnic Distribution, Hispanic Americans
Jordan, Harold W. – 1979
This study was conducted to identify and eliminate organizational barriers to racial equality in a government department by developing a model of organizational diagnosis and change. Interviews with employees identified various problem areas: the disproportionate distribution of blacks within the department and their over-representation in…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Employment, Blacks, Change Strategies
Briley, Kyle D.; And Others – 1980
Statistics regarding black employment in Kentucky State agencies as of November, 1979 were examined. Data indicated that the number of blacks employed by the State increased since 1977. Nine agencies employed 91 percent of all blacks in the government, while ten agencies remained all white. One-half of all blacks in the State government were…
Descriptors: Blacks, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Personnel Data
Hillson, Jon – 1977
This book concentrates on the experiences, personal insights, and big events that made up the battle to desegregate the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts. It also gives the historical background of the struggle. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state law against de facto segregation, the Racial Imbalance Act. It was not enforced. On…
Descriptors: Black Education, Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Gibbs, Jewelle Taylor – Sage, 1985
Compares Black and White adolescent females on two dimensions of psychosocial adjustment (self-esteem and educational-vocational expectations) and a global measure of adolescent psychological functioning. Generally, results indicate comparable or better adjustment of Black females than their White peers, satisfaction with themselves, and high…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Black Culture
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Orser, W. Edward – International Journal of Oral History, 1984
Studied is a Baltimore, MD, neighborhood where the racial composition altered drastically over a period of 20 years. How Whites who lived through it interpreted that change is described. Why people saw, and now remember, aspects of change and not aspects of continuity are also examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Interviews, Mobility, Neighborhood Integration
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