Explores black attitudes toward population control. (SB)

Some introductory remarks on the history and significance of white opposition to racism as manifested against African and African-derived peoples, focusing principally on some notes for the pre-Revolutionary period. (EH)

A documentation of racism in Boston and New England schools from colonial times to the present, coupled with a plea for black people to continue their struggle against white supremacy and for educational equality. (EH)

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)

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)

Defining the period of youth as the ages between 16 to 24 years, this article discusses the political economy of Afro-American youth oppression, the colonial educational system, crime and violence, death at an early age, and the future of black youth. (JM)

Describes the sexual dimension of racism as reflected in the motion picture portrayal of the black women. (RJ)

Discusses a survey conducted in 1974 to determine students' perceptions of themselves and their academic environments, with the purpose of refuting 'deficit' theories of low performance of blacks in schools, arguing that the school system is encouraging black students to develop unrealistic academic self concepts, which act as barriers to reaching…

An account of the involvement of black women in the struggle against racism and oppression which traces the history of their resistance and their unique position in the class struggle. Since the liberation of women cannot be separated from the liberation of society in general, current attempts at women's liberation movements are unsuccessful…

Argues that a crisis has been produced by the failure of most white writers in the U.S. to recognize that they refuse to recognize the right and the ability of non-whites, particular black writers, to speak for themselves and their people, while black writers still demand exercise of this fundamental right. (Author/JM)

Suggesting that the black community is faced with a racist media, and with media that exploit and have no sympathy with the poor, the author proposes two courses of action: the building of a first rate and independent black press devoted to social change, and working at entrances to the establishment press. (JM)

Presents a rationale for conceptualizing the black personality with a focus on the black male. (DM)

Argues that if black writers are to be committed to change and liberation, then they must be concerned with both the image the Afro-American has of himself and the image presented on the mass media, and asserts that blacks are in very grave danger of losing the cultural revolution which is stated to have shown such great promise in the 60s.…

Suggests that although the potent, black cultural vision is filling in the vacuum left by the continuing decay of white culture, the black experience in many respects is being perverted and misrepresented, ultimately to serve the interests of white supremacy. (Author/AM)