Using 1972-77 data collected by the National Opinion Research Center in the General Social Survey, the contact hypothesis (i.e., that geographic distance between Blacks and Whites is associated with racial attitudes) was tested. Modest but consistent correlations supported the hypothesis. (GC)

Alain Locke's thinking on race and race relations is not always clearly understood. His interest in race stemmed primarily from his attempt to combat notions of national, racial, and cultural superiority. As excerpts from his works show, Locke's position is more appropriately described as culturally pluralistic, rather than integrationist.…

The story "The Biscuit Eater" and the two films made from it can be used as a paradigm of the image of blacks in works made by whites. However, unlike those of 1940, reviewers of the 1972 Disney film were critical of every racially insensitive nuance, representing progress in racial awareness. (Author/GC)

Measurement of White attitudes, based on the acceptance of three conditions of what proportion of the student body is Black, indicates that, although many Whites in the sample accepted the idea of school integration under any circumstances, many accepted the idea only if Black students remained in the minority. (Author/EB)

Analyzes data on White attitudes toward Blacks, 1942-1985, to test Myrdal's hypothesis that racial bigotry in America would diminish as the South became more industrialized, urban, and literate. Discusses findings in relation to dominant ideologies, the gap between attitudes held by Blacks and Whites on levels of life satisfaction, and White…

Three categories of attitudes among Black sociologists were surveyed: (1) attitudes toward White sociologists who study Blacks; (2) attitudes favoring the political mobilization of Black sociologists; (3) attitudes favoring different methodological techniques for Black sociologists researching Black subjects. Attitudes are correlated with…

Examines some facets of racial attitudes among the blacks of Puerto Rico; during the months of July and August, 1971, many Puerto Ricans from different socioeconomic levels and regions were interviewed as part of an ethnolinguistic survey of the amounts of influence from West Africa which still remain on the island. (Author/JM)

Reports on a 1972 study of nursery school children's racial attitudes compared with those of older children. Children were tested with a semantic differential questionnaire and a social distance scale and were compared across age and race. Concludes that the norm for racial attitudes is a bias for one's own race. (MK)

Explored in this article is the thesis that physical anthropologists, who believe in the existence of race, issue from identifiable social backgrounds of relative privilege, status, and power, while those who do not come from more socially marginal backgrounds. (Author/EB)

Discusses the literary and philosophical writings of Alain Locke, focusing on his views of the relations between race, ethnicity, and art. Analyzes the tension between Locke's support for Black writers and his belief that they must strive to "universalize" their work for a non-Black audience. (KH)

Examines how a film may either intentionally or unintentionally be made a vehicle of prejudice-- Hurry Sundown" as an example of the latter and The Birth of a Nation," of the former. (JM)

This article examines a number of poems written by Claude McKay in order to illustrate changes which occurred in the poet's racial and social attitudes over a period of time. (EB)

Asserts that the relationship between the Negro character and the white in American fiction before the Civil War reveals a social mythology which Herman Melville was the first to undercut, by presenting the destiny of Negroes linked to that of America as a symbol of nemesis to white Americans who disregard the impact of slavery on the enslavers…

Discusses historical and recent writings dealing with miscegenation and the social role and significance of mulattoes (individuals with both Black and White ancestors) in American society. (GC)

This investigation sought to test an hypothesis developed by Gunnar Myrdal that whites had a hierarchy of importance attached to discriminatory practices, and that hierarchy of resentment of Negroes toward these practices was parallel to the ranking of the whites. (Author/JM)