Discusses black art as not only an expression of black life but as revolutionary art. It must be collective, functional, and committing. It must also be anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist. (LHW)

Discusses rape from a social and political viewpoint. Criticizes current literature on rape for perpetuating racist stereotypes and failing to account for the effects of a capitalist economic system on social and sexual relations. (GC)

The federal government disperses funds to writers by supporting deserving literary magazines. Not one black-edited or black-oriented publication is among those chosen, a situation representative of the racism operating in the literary world. (LHW)

One of the findings of a comprehensive investigation of the impact of black films in Chicago is that black films are a box office bonanza at Chicago's Loop theaters, but mainly for white theatre owners, producers and distributors. (Author/AM)

This paper summarizes the views of Cuban and black American leaders on Cuba's first war for independence. It is noted that what blacks can learn from Cuba is that the elimination of racism requires not only laws but a revolutionary process. (Author/AM)

Discusses the ethical issues surrounding anthropological research and the gap between professional social scientists and the native populations they study. Issues are presented from the perspective of Black Americans' reactions to investigation by White social scientists in a segregated society. (MK)

Special admissions and affirmative action are certainly worth defending, but the effectiveness and value of these reforms depends on the existence of a powerful movement for social change. The struggle against racism is the key to the struggle for a new social order in the U.S. (Author/AM)

Concludes that when and if a coalition of rural working people and students coalesce around a black, grassroots agenda, a new political history will begin for Tuskegee, for Macon County and perhaps for the entire "Black Belt South". (Author/AM)

Places the modern revival of interest in black history in an historical and political context. Not simply or even primarily an academic happening, it is inextricably linked to the resurgence of blacks' struggle for freedom since 1955. The freedom movement was in turn fed by the resurgence of black history. (LHW)

Suggests that since black colleges can no longer avoid controversy, it is fitting for them to meet controversy head on, rather than merely to sit back and react. (Author/AM)

Suggests that at this juncture in history the internal colony theory seems most relevant for understanding the complexities of race and class in a society which is both racist and capitalist. As a process oriented model, this theory helps to explain the function of race in a society based on class and sexual exploitation. (Author/AM)

The events from 1955 to 1970 did not solve the problems of blacks in America. Rather than a second Reconstruction, this period was a Second Black Renaissance. Black artists and scholars were exuberant and optimistic and white Americans took significant interest in black culture. (LHW)

Examines the fallacies of black male castration and impotence. (DM)

The stated purpose of this article is to advocate that those dealing with black people and black problems have some appreciable degree of knowledge concerning black culture, black jargon, black behavior, and the black or Afro-American psyche: only then can therapy be seen as satisfying the purposes for which it was initially intended. (Author/JM)

Explains how the majority race will use stereotyping to hold down a minority race, how this stereotyping was used in the movies of yesterday and is being used in the movies of today, and what black people must do to rid themselves of this stereotyping. (Author/AM)