Research is reviewed which demonstrates the existence of reverse discrimination (majority group members treating other majority group members worse than they treat members of a minority group) and tokenism (a decrease in subsequent compliance to large interracial requests) following prior compliance to smaller requests. Within subject evidence…

Sociometric questionnaires were administered to all pupils in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in an elementary school in February 1970, again in June 1970, and again to fifth and sixth grade pupils in February 1971. Results indicate that a relatively low proportion of minority members (black or white) to be most effective in improving…

A sixteen-item sociometric device was administered to 160 children in Grades K-4 in integrated open classrooms. Results show that race is an important factor in determining sociometric choices even if their classrooms are integrated in relatively equal proportions. (Author/SB)

The distinctive characteristic of the black psychology of the future is its adoption of an explicit goal, the liberation of black people; traditional psychology has not been merely apathetic towards this goal--it has actively opposed it. (Author/JM)

Reviews the empirical studies dealing with school desegregation and racial cleavage which have appeared since the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Focuses on patterns and consequences of interracial association, and attitude change relevant to racial cleavage. (DM)

Notes that overall, blacks and especially younger blacks, hold a more negative view of the racial climate than do whites. Black-white relationships are reported to be better in Vietnam than in the United States especially among soldiers who served in actual combat. (Author/AM)

Attempts to explain in extremely abbreviated form what caused the evacuation and how the Japanese minority reacted to their exclusion and rejection, focusing on three general causes: collective dispositions, situational factors, and collective interaction. (Author/JM)

A review of past studies and an analysis of current rates of intermarriage show a historical pattern which initially showed a high and almost exclusive preference for other Japanese, which began to show slight changes in the second generation, and which has reached the 50 percent level by the third generation. (Author/JM)

An introduction to a Special issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) by the guest editor, which reviews psychology's concerns with race relations and race related issues during the fifties, sixties and seventies, summarizes past JSI issues pertinent to those issues, and introduces the ten articles in this issue. (Author/JM)

In an investigation of the importance of cleanliness as well as race as a determinant of preference, 60 white and 56 black children of both sexes in grades two, three and four of a non-segregated New York city public school indicated their relative preferences for four photographs varying in cleanliness and race. Results indicate that cleanliness…

To determine whether or not blacks and whites are increasingly divergent in their political orientations, public opinion data from 13 separate national surveys conducted in 1961, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971 (4 studies) and 1972 (2 studies) by the Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) of Princeton, New Jersey, were examined. (Author/JM)

Narrow stereotypic perceptions of and prejudice toward the Chinese have been so pervasive and tenable that Americans of Chinese ancestry do not perceive themselves with a meaningful identity; examination of American social studies textbooks shows that involvement of Asians in American history is barely mentioned or neglected completely. (Author/JM)

The extent to which blacks and whites interacted socially on school grounds and their attitudes toward each other were ascertained across time during the first semester of an integration program in three southern secondary schools. Several effects on both variables related to race, sex, and grade level are reported. (Author)

Results of a programmed instruction approach to race relations training (the culture assimilator) in the U.S. army indicated that the problems used in the assimilator were far more familiar to black officers than to white officers; white officers did learn acculturative materials, and there was significant improvement on an independent test of…

There are serious shortcomings in the arguments that researchers have advanced to support the symbolic racism thesis. The following aspects are critically discussed: (1) concepts of symbolic racism; (2) methods used to measure symbolic racism; (3) the statement that traditional racism is a spent form; (4) the theorist's disregard of current…