Argues that the Black heroes created by Afrocentric, Black playwrights are categorically different from the White heroes created by Eurocentric, White playwrights. Identifies traits of the Black hero (personal magnitude, self-irony, verbal skill) and describes variations on the heroic in a number of Black American plays.

The widespread American belief that Blacks and females cannot learn mathematics as easily as White males is a self-perpetuating myth. Notable Black mathematicians of the past and present are surveyed. A large pool of Black technical talent is being ignored. (BJV)

Analyzes the literature of combat and its relationship to the aspirations and goals of the Afrikan Liberation movements. (Author/AM)

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)

The ways in which Black consciousness and experience emerge in the works of three Black poets are explored in this article. Historical, cultural, psychological, and linguistic influences are considered. (GC)

Discusses the psychological attitudes held by different French-speaking black authors. (Author/AM)

Examines three issues: (1) street journalism, (2) the assimilation of West Indian women to Afro-American women's political standards, and (3) the growth of a political sense of community in black New York. (Author/AM)

The crisis of the Black family is actually the crisis of the Black male and his inability to carry out the normative responsibilities of husband and father in the nuclear family. The family's disintegration is a symptom of the institutional decimation of Black males, the legacy of institutional racism. (LHW)

In African American communities, the female single-parent family is quickly growing. After a demographic profile, this essay stresses the importance of this sector of society, and questions why the black community doesn't offer more support to its single mothers. (LHW)

Briefly outlines the situation of education for U.S. Blacks today. Introduces and summarizes the articles in this special issue. (BJV)

Delineates the components of a theoretical system designed to meet the needs of black people; relates the field of sociology to an understanding of the black condition which will ultimately be applied in some effective way to the resolution of the oppressed condition of the masses of black folk.'' (Author/RJ)

Examines occupational and demographic data that underlie the commonly accepted notion that Black men have historically been economically inferior to Black women. Finds a lack of evidence to support this notion and calls for reconstruction of social knowledge in order to break down such myths. (GC)

Examines Hudson-Weems' book, "Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves," which highlights 18 qualities of Africana women and briefly addresses 18 characteristics of Africana males. This article takes these 18 characteristics for men and applies them to male characters from four novels, which together chronicle the decline of the Africana people and…

Presents the role of the black psychologist in the area of theorizing on black behavior in terms of the task of criticizing what has heretofore been written about black behavior, and also in terms of what the black psychologist should bring to this area of knowledge to replace past writing with ulterior motivation. (Author/JM)