Identifies characteristics of the "bad nigger" image, establishes its historical consistency, and explores its significance in Afro-American literature. Though this study is not exhaustive, it is comprehensive enough to point to an image that is persistently shown in the literature. (Author)

This article suggests that black visibility does not constitute black political power. (Author/AM)

Notes that for Baraka poetry has a two-fold purpose: it is a vehicle for expressing his disgust as well as a vehicle for expressing his hopes. He is always concerned with raising consciousness, with stimulating people, with identity and progress and with cultural awareness. (Author)

Examination of its historical development indicates that while Congressional Black Caucus legislative priorities have become more focused, on the other hand these priorities are not the result of a careful analysis of what is or is not a black issue but rather of the economic climate which led to concentration on economic issues. (Author/AM)

Concludes that in spite of the small number of black women office holders, they have been able to maneuver themselves to be on target when critical issues are of concern to their legislative districts. (Author/AM)

The major proposition in this essay is that black politics is moving from the tumultuous politics of idealistic protest to a cautious politics of backlash pragmatism. (Author)

Suggests that the American political system has generated and sustained a culture of total power and participation for whites and a culture of total powerlessness and exclusivity for blacks. (Author/AM)

The result of this research study indicates that black parents have more influence on their children's academic performance in the later grades than they do in the earlier grades, although the magnitude of this influence remains relatively small. (Author)

Notes that many young blacks view the black church as the place where unintelligent blacks go to sing and shout about another world, because they cannot do anything to change this world. (Author)

Argues that from the first slave ships to the present time, black families have been looking for better homes, better schools and a way to participate in the social order that rules over their lives: their problem has always been the same--the lack of power. Holds that this was what the Civil Rights, the black power and the black Studies Movements…

This paper evaluated the Grow-Shapiro study of transracial adoption of black children by white parents and assessed its relevance to the controversy over transracial adoption finding that the study failed to seriously address itself to the question of black identity and its correlates--the crux of the adoption controversy. Some suggestions made…

Noting that West Africans view the family unit as a cooperative community encompassing not only living relatives but also those not yet born and those already dead, and asserting that many practices exist in black American communities which can be traced back to West Africa, this paper examines African survivals in the black American family and…

Finds that, according to the studies discussed, regardless of whatever the setting, be it impatient or outpatient or crisis intervention, black individuals and their families are afforded different types of treatment than white individuals and their families, and that racism and selective biases account for the differences obtained. Also, black…

Notes that because black youth tend to be treated by persons who hold negative attitudes about their values and life-styles, they are denied access to equal justice and human dignity from the law. (Author)

The social growth and development which blacks have gained over the last ten years are now being seriously threatened by changes in social policy which may become sanctioned by law. (Author)