Isolated personal observations have shaped the racial image of the Nordic countries--that Scandinavia is a racial paradise; this image is, however, simplistic, superficial, and one-dimensional. There is no gainsaying that prejudice against certain ethnic groups exists in Scandinavia. (Author)

Investigates evidence suggesting the presence of post-desegregation discrimination in all 170 Georgia school systems. (Author/AM)

This essay traces the integration movement, and reports the thought-provoking results from a survey of teachers who were being subjected to racial balancing of faculties and students. (Author)

This study examined developmental changes in children's own-race and cross-race sociometric ratings, using a longitudinal design. Subjects were 38 black and 116 white children. They were tested in third grade in 1973 and again in sixth grade in 1976. These children had experienced racially integrated education from kindergarten onward. In…

This study began in 1958 as an investigation of the adjustment problems of Mexican-Americans in a highly visible barrio on the outskirts of Racine, Wisconsin. It was believed that an understanding of the process of value assimilation would explain their success or lack of success in adjusting to Anglo society. However, as we have come to see it,…

Deals with the development of the racial bureaucracy'' (public civil rights agencies) during the past 30 years, 1941-71; focuses on the issues and changes relating to the era of prejudice'' (1941-57), the era of discrimination'' (1957-67), and the era of racism'' (since 1967). (RJ)

The focal crises simulated in the game are set in a district integrated at the beginning of the Fall term. Each school had an enrollment that was approximately 52 percent white, 22 percent black, 22 percent Mexican American, and the remainder Oriental. During the early weeks of school, the integration plan worked smoothly. After a short time,…

The study investigated the differential effects of subjects' race, examiners' race, and stated purpose of testing upon self-report measures of disadvantaged young adults. A sample of students enrolled in a Manpower Development and Training Center participated. A black, and a white, examiner administered self-report instruments to 40 black and 40…

This was a study of the influence of unintended interracial contact and characteristics of the contact situation on attitude-related action and attitude change. It was designed to determine if persons with initially negative racial attitudes would change these attitudes by an experimental experience. The research subjects were white students from…

The "assimilation perspective" on minority group relations in America distort empirical reality because of two hidden assumptions. First, divergence or difference is recognized at an earlier point--only to be corrected by equalization of opportunity. The second tends to view the "new world"--the assimilated--as homogeneous. The…

This selected bibliography was prepared for the Racine, Wisconsin School District by the Title VII (Emergency School Aid Act) project for use by teachers, administrators, counselors, psychologists, social workers, librarians, and other professional and support personnel employed by the district. All of the materials listed in the…

Two questions are examined in this brief for the United States, on petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: (1) whether the Austin Independent School District (AISD) has engaged in racial discrimination against its black and Mexican American students, and, (2) whether the Court of Appeals erred…

Research reported here deals with 5,800 Georgia high school students' racial attitudes. Data were collected using a paper and pencil survey instrument administered to blacks and whites in 28 schools. A total of 21 independent variables were selected through an extensive literature search and used in the analysis. These were grouped into four…

Since the birth of school integration efforts in America, the mixing of children of different races and ethnicities has gone through segregation, desegregation, and resegregation. Just as the popular misbelief was that Black Americans were segregated in the South where they numerically concentrated and rarely in the North, so too the stereotypic…