Provides a chronological examination of the history of the school segregation-discrimination dilemna in Chicago from 1825 to the 1930s. Attempts to highlight the resulting impediments to Black students' educational achievement and to furnish reasons for its persistence. (MK)

The "system paradigm" is a basic conceptual external constraint upon sociologists which inhibits their analysis of the black-white conflict in America. To illustrate this point the central concepts of Robert E. Park and Gunnar Myrdal are examined. (EH)

The special problems and implications associated with genetic screening of blacks in the U.S. are discussed. (Author/AM)

The relationship between race and crime is examined in a new theoretical framework which applies a colonial analogy in which the black community is viewed as an underdeveloped colony whose economics and politics are controlled by leaders of the racially dominant group. (EH)

Outlines a partial framework of the range of concerns embraced by DuBois on matters pertaining to economic disadvantagement of black people, and offers some analysis of what the evolutionary process has yielded black people as economic participants and the implications of these facts for public policy today and tomorrow. (Author/JM)

Reviews the coming of Blacks to Appalachia and the general character of their social and cultural development in the region. Focuses on the retreat from biracial education and biracial unionism in the early 1900s and how these failures affected the present status of Appalachian Blacks as some of America's poorest people. (CMG)

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)

Progressive educational reform in the South during the Great Depression is examined. Ways in which educational change seemingly functioned to serve modernization while concurrently maintaining racist patterns are illustrated. It is suggested that fundamental change in the conditions of oppression may not be possible without addressing the…

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)

Logical inconsistencies in Americans' views of Blacks - a commitment to equality and freedom while simultaneously espousing group superiority themes - are traced back to the attitudes which the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay held toward the American Indians during a century of sustained cultural conflict (EH).

Surveys past two decades of struggle for Black civil rights in the U.S., measuring progress in the areas of political equality, equality before the law, equality of opportunity, economic equality, and social equality. Concludes that Black people in 1983 remain as oppressed as 20 years ago. (RDN)