Discusses Black studies as coherent system, involving history, economics, sociology, and cultural education. Holds that Black studies, if approaches as a multidisciplinary enterprise, can be used to solve some of the most basic problems of the Black community. (GC)

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)

Critizes failure of education to address itself to society's ills, to adequately reflect the culture and history of Afro-Americans, and to prepare Black students for constructive action in the ghettos. (KG)

A broad historical examination of the changing forms and features of black separatism, focusing on an analysis of the themes of emigrationism, isolationism, and territorialism. (EH)

The author cites examples of exploitation of the Black Community by researchers and proposes strategies for its elimination. (RWP)

A Berkeley teacher speaks out about the subsequent problems and dangers as she sees them. (Editors/JA)

Though Dubois tried to begin a series of scientific studies on the Negro problem in America more than 70 years ago, only recently have attempts been made to present a true history of the Black man in institutions of higher learning. Until that time, the experience of the Black man was defined in Euro-American terms, or in most cases was completely…

A questionnaire, college catalogs, other institutional publications, the national media, and personal statements of educators were among the tools used in this examination of community college efforts to adopt Black Studies programs. The major findings were: (1) Black Studies courses are widespread; (2) enrollments are adequate; (3) enrollments…

Describes the confrontation between black scholars, representing the African Heritage Studies Association, and the overwhelmingly white African Studies Association. Black studies are contended not to be the province of white scholars who tend to see Africa as an "ethnic plantation, and who resent the idea of an international unity of African…

Questionnaire responses indicated that (1) Black sociologists believe that they are linked with and should liberate the Black community; (2) Black sociologists see the need to develop a Black sociology; and (3) despite their levels of education, status, and income, Black sociologists consider themselves different from Whites. (Author/MJL)