Reports on the experiences of an undercover television news researcher who investigated complaints about discriminatory employment agency practices. (MK)

Examines similarities between the Black Power Movement of the 1960s and the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s. Proposes that the Black Liberation Movement provided the groundwork and rhetoric to fuel the later emerging Women's Movement. (MK)

Reprint of a 1978 article that describes the alienation and escapism that prevail among Black women inmates of Riker's Island prison in New York City. Calls for Black women to unite against racial, sexual, and economic oppression. (GC)

Focuses on Supreme Court naturalization rulings in relation to Asian immigrants. Asserts that an ethos of racial exclusion set the stage for internment of Japanese Americans in World War II and continues to discriminate against Asian immigrants in the United States today. (GC)

Presents literature review on institutional racism in the field of mental health to identify its past and present forms, and provides recommendations from a clinical, community, and public policy nature. Also describes mental health approaches that attempt to be preventive or consultative for purpose of understanding modern forms of racism.…

Discusses racism from disease perspective. Posits underlying schema of irrelevance as cognitive structure acquired in childhood to cope with inconsistent data of racial oppression in ideologically egalitarian society. Sees schema coming into conflict with diversity in U.S. life and individual manifesting disease symptoms. Utility of group…

Notes that effects of racism on African Americans may have deleterious consequences that necessitate their seeking counseling. Addresses cultural considerations, economic factors, historical factors, and client expectations that may be salient when engaging African-American clients in counseling. Considers possible need for counselors to be…

Argues that women's studies has not paid enough attention to working-class women and women of color. Focuses on tokenism and under-representation within institutions and the weaknesses within feminist theory that result from its classism and racism. Proposes strategies and goals for building a more diverse women's studies and an integrative…

From interviews with 10 women of color for qualitative research about experiences as clients in mental health systems, summarizes all 10 women's examples of racism and sexism and discusses stories and impact that experiences had on the women. Discusses dilemma of white researchers doing research on women of color, and makes recommendations for…

Examines racism on college campuses. Discusses group defamation and freedom of speech within that context. Concludes in this period of racial unrest and conflict, a reappraisal is in order of delicate balance between protection from group and class defamation on the one hand and free speech on other, using law as an important base from which to…

Questions whether defeat of propositions to establish paid Martin Luther King holiday in Arizona was example of racism among primarily White senior adult voters of the state. Proposes three models to account for general pattern of election-related behavior and for vote itself: proactive racist; pragmatic self-interest; and fortress mentality.…

This report summarizes a seminar organized by Great Britain's National Union of Students for Afro-Caribbean and Asian students in nonadvanced further education (FE). The seminar was designed to facilitate a discussion about various aspects of participants' experiences in further education. An introduction provides background, discusses the…

In 1972, the District of Columbia Advisory Committee initiated an inquiry to determine the role that discrimination has played in limiting minority business enterprises in the Washington area. Meetings were held in which businessmen, representatives of technical assistance organizations, government officials, and bankers examined the question of…

Discusses the history of Black access to education since before the Civil War. Describes how Whites consented to Black education only as a mechanism for containing Blacks, whereas Blacks have traditionally seen education as a tool for liberation. (CH)

Harry Edwards of the University of California at Berkeley has formed an organization to monitor the hiring of black coaches and sports administrators--particularly in intercollegiate athletics. The National Organization on the Status of Minorities in Sports will track vacancies in college athletics and submit names of qualified blacks to fill…