This dissertation examines racism as a cultural element and its expression in institutionalized form. Through a socio-historical analysis, it focuses on the emergence of racism as an ideology and its subsequent expression in social practice under a socio-racial system. Critical to the study is the emergent struggle of black Americans in their…

This is an historical study of the attempts to achieve racial balance in the public schools of Utica, New York between 1963 and 1975. The methodology of the study is basically historical and also uses participant observation. The overriding issue in the attempt to develop a racial balance plan was the controversy over forced busing. The study…

This dissertation is about the development of social movements out of racial and educational conflict in Boston. With a socio historical approach to the problem, this study makes use of oral history interviews, documents from groups involved in the education conflict, and census material. This examination centers on the black community of Boston…

The training which is the subject of this thesis is the 18-hour course of instruction which is required, on an annual basis, for all Air Force military personnel. An attitude questionnaire was used to determine racial attitude indexes of subjects who had just completed the training and of a control group who had not been exposed to the course.…

This dissertation explores the role of blacks in the field of organized athletics. From the institution of slavery, to vocational education, to unequal educational opportunity, to exploitation for profit, the white ruling class has been successful in maintaining control of the lives and destiny of the black community, particularly in the field of…

The purpose of this dissertation, an ethnographic case study of white children attending an urban, public elementary school with a ninety percent black enrollment, is to examine their strategic adaptations and to gauge the effect of these adaptations on actual cross-racial interactions. The data were collected through participant and…

This dissertation used quantitative techniques to analyze the treatment of black people and race relations in a selected sample of 20 high school and college textbooks in United States history. The procedure measured the actual amount of change by pairing texts published in 1963 with similar books published in 1973. Analysis of the data revealed a…

Many studies have been made over the past several years on black students and their academic performance at predominantly white institutions, but the reversed situation of white students attending historically black educational facilities has received minimal coverage. Based on a literature review and two surveys of white students at a black…

In order to help social learning become a more operational theory, this thesis attempts to create a better understanding of the conditions conducive to effective group action in a social context. Parts one and two trace the evolution of social learning theory in education and planning. Part three attempts to identify within a practical setting --…

The problem was to conduct a sequel study in the Ribault attendance area of Duval County Jacksonville, Florida. The original study was conducted by a group in 1971. Specifically the study was made to identify changes that had occurred in the opinions of teachers, principals, deans, curriculum coordinators, and counselors since the 1971 study.…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between 38 factors of integration and of student unrest in six desegregated high schools in south eastern United States. The basic problem of this study was to determine whether or not the quality of integration as measured on the 38 factors of integration on the Secondary Student…

An inter-racial simulation game was administered to 6 ninth grade social studies classes in a desegregated upper middle class suburban junior high school to determine how the game would affect the white students racial attitudes and the self perceived race relations within the classrooms. There were two experimental treatments, the Sunrise game,…

The racial attitudes of 83 children who live in a community which is approximately half black and half white are examined in this study. Income and education are similar for both races. The purpose of the study is twofold: to test a hypothesis about the effect of equal status interracial contact and to investigate parents' perception of their…