An examination of the personalities of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Frederick Douglass within the framework of Maslow's theoretical model of the self-actualizing person. (EH)

Black studies programs might become a more viable and encompassing discipline if these programs were abandoned in favor of an Ethnic Studies Program. (Author/JP)

Reports the development of African and Afro-American Studies in a consortium of six black colleges, reviewing adopted approaches in respect of the project's major thrusts: faculty development, curricular development and cultural enrichment in the areas of the social sciences, literature, arts, humanities, and the life sciences. (Author/JM)

An analysis and discussion of the educational implications of white, mythical black, and actual black perspectives in terms of their relative emphasis on cognition and affectivity. (EH)

Explores the perplexing process of the education of black students in America, the rudiments of which derive from the philosophies underlying early forms of formal instruction as well as the various and sundry repressive patterns and processes of pedagogy which have characterized the education of black students. (Author/JM)

Describes several seriously mistaken judgments underlying the development of compensatory higher education programs for disadvantaged black college students, and describes the task of black professionals in the field of education as role models and as enabling agents to help revolutionize the higher education process. (Author/JM)

Whether the model in black studies is a department, a center, an institute or an interdisciplinary program it should consist of a minimum of four components: academic, community, cultural, and evaluative; each of the components should be interrelated to provide students with significant experiences according to their goals. (Author/JM)

Argues that effective Black Studies programs must be based on a sound and clearly articulated rationale in order to result in effective student learning, suggesting that the main goal of Black Studies should be to aid students in developing their abilities to engage in reflective decision-making. (Author/JM)