The general character and significance of a quest for the real gives "Black Boy" its special form. The autobiography displays the development of Wright's soul and the nature of his own specifically artistic quest. The opening scene metaphorically prefigures the shape and movement of Wright's formative experiences as a whole. (LHW)

Books favored in this survey are those recovering an image insufficiently explored in the past, intensifying an image for greater understanding, and those taking off in some pioneering direction. (DM)

DuBois' scholarly efforts from 1894 to 1915 provided social science with its first acceptable and comprehensive analysis of Afro-American culture. DuBois should be viewed not only as the foremost pioneer of Black Studies but also as one of the founders of American social sciences. (CMG)

An analysis of Phillis Wheatley and her poetry which suggests that her verse is permeated with a social ambivalence which reflects a self-hatred motivated by the factor of race. (EH)

An examination of the image of the Black woman as faithful servant and mammy from the perspective of both myth and reality, as depicted in the work of Faulkner. (EH)

The black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, born June 27, 1872 and died February 9, 1906, was an unrivalled forerunner of the great literary generation of his race that burst forth after the first World War and founded the Black Renaissance; the concept of La Negritude'' developed principally among poets of African descent before World War 2. (Author/JM)

Negritude begins with a recognition, a consciousness of blackness, then proceeds to an acceptance in which blackness is praised; the qualities of blacks are elaborated; a heritage is created; the plight of blacks is described and white values and civilization are belittled. (Author/JM)

This investigation was concerned with the collection and analysis of curricula currently in use in the senior high school dealing with the role of American Negroes in United States history to determine whether the curricula reflected recent historical scholarship. (Author/JM)

Explores several facets of science and technology from an Afrocentric perspective with a world view, normative assumptions, and frames of reference growing from experiences and folk wisdom of African Americans. African-American studies can illuminate ways in which science and technology have been subordinated to ideology. (SLD)

Examines questions of constructing a unified theory in Black Studies, and proposes a model that has explained creole language phenomena as a possible basis for such a unified theory. Explores the role of African languages in the formation of creole patterns. (SLD)

The field of Black Women's Studies has developed because of the failure of Black Studies or Women's Studies to address the unique experiences of African-American women adequately. The history of this new discipline is traced, and some significant works and scholars are identified. (SLD)

Explores the history of KMT (ancient Egypt) and its importance for contemporary African-American experience. Reviews evidence that ancient Egypt was a black African population bound by history and culture to the rest of Africa. The rescue of Kemetic history can restore a sense of heritage to African Americans. (SLD)

Discusses the influence of Arthur A. Schomburg on the present author's concept of African studies and his knowledge of African history. Schomburg is presented as the antecedent of the Black Studies Revolution and one of the ideological fathers of this generation of scholars. (SLD)

Black Studies as a field appears to be in the stage of institutionalization, requiring that questions of who is qualified to teach and what is required to teach Black Studies be answered. Issues of scholarship defining an alternate history of the United States are discussed. (SLD)