The literature on Black Studies, Afro-Brazilian Studies and Comparative Race Relations between Brazil and the United States has been dedicated to the study of Black activism and education. However, there is a gap in comparative studies focused on Black Studies units in the United States and Afro-Brazilian studies in Brazil. The dissertation…

More than 60 years after the ruling in "Brown v. Board of Education" was handed down, its promise remains unfulfilled. In many respects, America's public schools continue to be "separate and unequal." Indeed, the growing resegregation of American schools by race and ethnicity, compounded by economic class segregation, has…

"The United States today is a suburban nation that thinks of race as an urban issue, and often assumes that it has been largely solved," write the editors of this groundbreaking and passionately argued book. They show that the locus of racial and ethnic transformation is now clearly suburban and illustrate patterns of demographic change…

News briefs relating to misinformation on racial conflict in Boston; a drive for impeachment of an Indianapolis judge who ordered the implementation of a new desegregation for the city; slavery in Florida; protection for Arizona Indians from the floods; the coming into the limelight of Miles College, Birmingham, Ala.; and other. (RJ)

Analyzes Boston's decline in white enrollment, the effect school desegregation has had on this decline and on racial balance, and whether school desegregation has led to resegregation of the school system. (Author)

This report shows that 30 years after the enactment of the federal fair housing law and despite favorable circumstances, housing markets in the Boston metropolitan area remain strongly segregated. The report is based on Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data and census data. The HMDA data provide information about the race, ethnicity, income,…

This article was prepared for a Seminar in Urban Politics and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, in the Spring of 1968. (RJ)

Boston has a history of racial, religious, and ethnic discrimination, despite its role in abolition and political revolution. Since the seventeeth century, various immigrant groups have vied for political and economic power. Present-day racist violence between Blacks and Whites is simply the latest of a series of conflicts. (GC)

Among the issues discussed in this round table discussion are the following: bussing, the conflicts between labor and bussing, and the bussing crisis in Boston. (AM)

This article attempts to contribute to the understanding of systemic racism by showing some of the subtlety and pervasiveness of this racism, primarily through an analysis of how the violence in Boston during the spring of 1976 was, and continues to be, handled. (Author/EB)

This research describes "how" and "when" the separate schools in nineteenth-century Boston were organized and the role of the black community in the establishment of a system of segregated education. (Editor/RK)

This book concentrates on the experiences, personal insights, and big events that made up the battle to desegregate the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts. It also gives the historical background of the struggle. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state law against de facto segregation, the Racial Imbalance Act. It was not enforced. On…

This report presents results of a research project designed to increase understanding of civil rights crime through a systematic description of the characteristics of incidents that occurred in Boston (Massachusetts) between 1983 and 1987. Data were taken from police incident reports and are limited to only those cases that were reported to the…

This issue of the "Interracial Books for Children Bulletin" contains a special section focusing on the film called, "The Speaker". This film purports to deal with an assault on the First Amendment and with the necessity for eternal vigilance in defense of U.S. Constitutional freedom. The setting is an integrated high school…