This contemporary female author gives her opinion on a variety of subjects like Black writers, Black women, slavery, and the arts. (AM)

Concludes that the struggles waged by black students point out that the anti racist struggle is dialectically bound to the general class struggle and helps push it forward along the revolutionary path. (Author/AM)

This article describes how the education process of Black children, the Black consciousness movement, mass media, and majority attitudes have led to the absence of literary interest and literary development of Blacks. The ways in which these factors influence the present and potential roles of Black writers and critics are discussed. (EB)

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)

Among the aims of the festival are: 1) to ensure the revival, resurgence, and propagation of black and African culture and black and African cultural values and civilization, and 2) to promote black and African artists, performers, and writers and facilitate their world acceptance. (Author/AM)

FESTAC 1977 was the culmination of the many investigations, diversity of expression and the myriad ways black people are identifiable with African heritage. (Author)

An annotated listing, by publisher, of Black and Black-related books, described as incomplete due to space limitations. Includes novels, scholarly analyses, poetry, history, cultural studies, political studies, biographies, how-to manuals, bibliographies, drama, literary criticism, and folklore. (CMG)

One of the findings of a comprehensive investigation of the impact of black films in Chicago is that black films are a box office bonanza at Chicago's Loop theaters, but mainly for white theatre owners, producers and distributors. (Author/AM)

Notes that black people are extremely adept at survival and suggests that historians need to identify and emphasize the mechanisms by which this survival has been possible. (Author/AM)

Addresses the role of the black social scientist in the United States and notes his contributions by providing two sets of bibliographies; earlier literature include works published through the fifties, and recent contributions dating from 1960 to the present. (Author/AM)

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)

Examines the relationship between anthropology and the Black experience from the first importation of slaves to North America to the present. Discusses the role of Black anthropologists. (MK)

The events from 1955 to 1970 did not solve the problems of blacks in America. Rather than a second Reconstruction, this period was a Second Black Renaissance. Black artists and scholars were exuberant and optimistic and white Americans took significant interest in black culture. (LHW)

A personal reminiscence of the people behind this movement in New York City in the 1960s. Focuses on LeRoi Jones. (LHW)

Discusses black art as not only an expression of black life but as revolutionary art. It must be collective, functional, and committing. It must also be anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist. (LHW)