Analyzes the various types of minority responses to potential intergroup situations. Assesses the implications of the responses for the continuing assimilation of Negroes in American society. (RJ)

Alain Locke's thinking on race and race relations is not always clearly understood. His interest in race stemmed primarily from his attempt to combat notions of national, racial, and cultural superiority. As excerpts from his works show, Locke's position is more appropriately described as culturally pluralistic, rather than integrationist.…

Having developed a paradigm for substructural irregularities in patterns of interaction, presents the paradigm axiomatically so that it has application to any system which is assumed to be stratified on a power-dependence dimension. (RJ)

Notes that Park differs from Myrdal not only because he holds the view that racial ideologies are products of both historical and contemporary conflicts and are thus embedded in peoples consciousness, but also in his belief that America is not an idealistic or especially moral nation. (Author/AM)

Focuses on the paradox of a large black organization, the Colored Farmers' Alliance, committed to protesting both racial and economic injustices in the late nineteenth century, allowing whites to serve as its chief spokesman, and attempts to explain the functional role played by these white leaders during this period. (RJ)

An important division of opinion on the nature of caste has developed among a number of prominent authorities on the sociology and anthropology of India. In this regard, the ideas of M. V. Shrinivas, T. B. Bottomore, E. R. Leach and Gerald Berreman are discussed. Comparison is made between caste in India and racial stratification in the United…

Describes the events that followed subsequent to the assignment of an all-black regimental unit to the Fort Brown military installation on the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas, in 1906, with reference to the reactions of the Brownsville residents, the Negro press, and white champions of the black cause, and to the actions of President Theodore…

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)

Throughout the 1960's, when racial strife was rampant throughout the nation, Atlanta's shining image was, to a large degree, the result of a black majority too busy to hate." (Author/RJ)

This article examines a number of poems written by Claude McKay in order to illustrate changes which occurred in the poet's racial and social attitudes over a period of time. (EB)