Whiteness fits the broad historical concept of property as it represents a social and material value as well as historical legal rights (Harris, 1993). Harris (1993) traced the history of racialization as justification for which people were legally citizens with the ability of self-possession and which people were relegated as the property of…

South African government has been promulgating pieces of legislation aimed at ensuring racial integration, especially in higher education, and indirectly enforcing acculturation in historically white universities. Studies have proven that institutional cultures in historically white universities alienate and exclude black students' identities.…

This comparative study examines the historical development of race equality efforts during the 1970s and 1980s in two global cities--Toronto and London--and the role of African Canadian and Black British educators in longstanding school-community partnerships. I characterize the leadership stance of Black educators as boundary spanners and…

This is an exploratory study on the nature and extent of racial integration in South African schools in the post-apartheid period. While there is vigilant media attention to occasional, dramatic incidents of racial conflict in white schools, there is very little research on the ways in which student identities are framed, challenged, asserted and…

The ideal of creating a non-racial and equitable school environment is embedded in the South African Constitution. This ideal is informed by a desire to overcome the divisions of the apartheid past by pursuing policies and strategies that will promote the achievement of social cohesion, without denying space for various identities. Schools are…

The following is a historically informed review of Puerto Rican phenotype. Geared toward educating psychologists, this review discusses how various psychological issues associated with phenotype may have arisen as a result of historical legacies and policies associated with race and racial mixing. It discusses how these policies used various…

The black librarians in Southern schools are the first of the faculty to integrate white schools, the first transferred and are largely left out of the power structure. (MF)

The American Library Association's (ALA) Black Caucus expects that the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee will proceed to carry out the mandate--to censure and bring sanctions against those librarians and libraries that provide service to segregated schools established to circumvent the U. S. Supreme Court Decision. (Author/MF)

Consists of 8 articles entitled: (1) Winners and Losers; (2) What the Statistics Say; (3) Northern Integration; (4) Massive Resistance Northern Style; (5) The Case of New York City; (6) As the Students See It; (7) Mississippi Conversations; (8) Reflections on the Past Twenty Years. Each deals with the aftermath of Brown vs. the Board of Education.…

Describes Black participation in the history, governance, and activities of the United Automobile Workers Union. Calls for organized labor in general to support more actively equal employment for Blacks and to make a greater commitment to economic equality and progress. (GC)

Study of fifty organizations indicates an increasing concern for racial equality at meetings and other sectors of professional exchange. At the same time, blacks themselves are taking more active roles. (DM)

The "lost letter" method was used to measure White and Black attitudes toward Black revolutionary and integration organizations. Whites were found to be less likely than Blacks to send on "lost" letters when the letters were addressed to radical-sounding organizations than when addressed to a randomly named individual. (GC)