Analyzes and criticizes attempts to establish theoretical underpinnings for the field of black studies. Presents postulates aimed toward substantive theory-building.

Lists "Black and Black related" books available from American and some British publishing companies. Also provides lists of publishers and bookstores that carry works relevant to Blacks and Black studies. (GC)

Lists and annotates Black and Black-related books of interest to scholars in the humanities and social sciences (organized by publisher). (KH)

Provides information deleted, for space reasons, from an article by the same authors in "The Black Scholar" March-April 1984. Identifies six alternative intellectual foci to be included in Black Studies courses and discusses briefly the development of a paradigm for the study of the Black experience. Also provides footnotes omitted from the…

Some introductory remarks on the history and significance of white opposition to racism as manifested against African and African-derived peoples, focusing principally on some notes for the pre-Revolutionary period. (EH)

The resistence to Black studies is more than the denial of the present relevance of the Afro-American experience; it is also a strategy designed to forestall the modification of a society in the future by suppressing knowledge about the past. (Author/EB)

Argues that from 1967 to 1982, Black Studies organized a substantial body of intellectual thought; organized its trends, issues, and insights into formal curricula; and organized its practitioners (instructors, theoreticians, writers) into institutional and professional association on a nationwide basis. (Author/CMG)

An analysis of the theoretical, psychological, and practical implications of black community control of schools as a viable response to white separatism and discrimination. (EH)

A chronicle of the unrealistic portrayal of black identity and black experience on television in the past 20 years. (EH)

Places the modern revival of interest in black history in an historical and political context. Not simply or even primarily an academic happening, it is inextricably linked to the resurgence of blacks' struggle for freedom since 1955. The freedom movement was in turn fed by the resurgence of black history. (LHW)

Reviews Maulana Karenga's "Introduction to Black Studies" (1982). Discusses the academic and social relevance of the discipline and its growth out of economic, political, and historical forces. Concurs with Karenga's Afrocentric approach but notes the difficulties in its implementation within the current academic climate. (GC)

This essay analyzes how the Afro-American intelligentsia has inherited and has been critically influenced by the idological postures of bourgeois thought, and utilized it in the study of the Afro-American experience. (Author/AM)

In contrast to traditional concepts, a new model for social work practice in the black community is presented which proceeds from an expanded definition of the goals of the profession and in which neo-colonialism, survival, and liberation are the principal conceptual components. Implications for social work practice and education are also…

An account of the involvement of black women in the struggle against racism and oppression which traces the history of their resistance and their unique position in the class struggle. Since the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of society in general, current attempts at women's liberation movements are unsuccessful…