This article represents a critical reflection of a Black African American female associate professor who, while teaching a diversity course, unknowingly enabled systems of power and privilege to undermine her faculty role in the course and in the academy. The author revisits a story of this experience and its vestiges using Critical Race Theory…

Traces Supreme Court responses to civil rights issues since 1953. Considers the personal role of Chief Justice Earl Warren in reversing many discriminatory laws, and the conservative decisions of the more recent Burger Court with its Nixon appointees. (GC)

Current editions of texts for elementary students reflect, more than did older texts, the pluralistic nature of American society. However, questions still remain regarding the inclusion of minorities in texts, the extent to which males and females are represented, and the proportion of representation of these two areas. (Author/EB)

Outlines some of the achievements of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as the leading organizational advocate for Blacks in the U.S. Chronicles the key court cases won by the NAACP in the field of education since 1948. (RDN)

Traces the extent to which black men and women have protested conditions like discrimination, segregation, poverty, the lack of jobs, etc. during the full course of the two hundred years since the birth of the U.S. (Author/AM)

Analyzes black economic separatism following an approach which rests upon a modification of G.S. Becker's model of economic discrimination: black and white societies are viewed as being in a trading relationship in which resources are exchanged. (Author/JM)

Reviews efforts by Black Americans to gain social justice and equality through education. Traces the civil rights movement from the 1954 Supreme Court Brown decision and the Montgomery (Alabama) bus strike and examines the philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on education as an instrument of social justice. (AOS)

Examines the salaries of full-time faculty at the University of North Florida to determine if differences exist between salaries for white faculty and black faculty, and determines the extent to which black and white faculty differ in productivity. No evidence of discrimination against blacks is found. (Author/JM)

Provides a sociological discourse on how black Americans have related to higher education and educational opportunities during the past two hundred years. (Author)

Notes that the Afro-Americans' struggle for equality during the second century has been waged on many fronts: education, jobs, housing, public accommodations, voting rights, and human dignity, among others. (Author)

The discretionary aspects of disciplinary practices coupled with the cultural differences between Black students and their teachers largely explain the racial disparity in disciplinary measures. Many of these differences, based on new frames of cultural and social reference established by Blacks during the 1960s, have not yet been adequately…

As a result of the Brown v Board of Education court decision, thousands of educational positions which would have gone to Blacks in the South have been lost, although gains in school positions for Blacks have occurred in other parts of the country. (RLV)

This critique asserts that the author of An economic analysis of black separatism'' has a misconception of what black separatism is all about, attempting to treat this long-run phenomenon as a short-run matter which is already a fait accompli. (Author/JM)

This article discusses some of the more important economic problems of minorities in the United States, identifying the economics of minorities with the economics of poverty, discrimination, exploitation, urban life, and alienation. (JM)

Reviews court decisions on discrimination cases to show that the rulings of the Supreme Court under the Nixon administration have been detrimental to the racial desegregation movement. (MJL)