Six predictor variables (gender, race, disadvantage, postsecondary plans, vocational education, career indecision) were 75% accurate in identifying career maturity and immaturity among 90 economically disadvantaged rural ninth graders. Career indecision and race were most important for career immaturity, race and disadvantage for career maturity.…

Discusses race and class in American politics, political empowerment, and self-efficacy and exposure to mass media. Results of a telephone survey conducted in Prince Georges County (Maryland) that examined media use, political self-efficacy, and system efficacy across race and social class are described. (Contains 37 references.) (LRW)

Studied the individual and social connections between teenage and adult sexual outcomes over time, by race and locale, and by individual liaison using data from 28 counties in California. Results show that teenagers display behaviors virtually identical to those of adults of the same backgrounds and socioeconomic status. Implications for…

Explores the influence of race and consultant verbal behavior on preservice teachers (N=154) perceptions of consultants' competence and multicultural sensitivity. The preservice teachers viewed videotapes of a problem definition interview in which the race of the consultee, race and verbal behavior of the consultant were completely crossed.…

Examines how patient race, rating of physical and emotional health, expression of physical, emotional, and social-problem symptoms, and physician perceptions of patients' physical health, emotional health, and social problems influence psychotropic prescribing in patients with chronic illness. Emphasizes the importance of training primary-care…

Examines the effects of teacher race, pupil race, and teacher-child racial congruence on teacher ratings of the school adjustment of 445 kindergarten through fifth-grade children from 70 classrooms in 24 racially mixed urban schools. The relation between stereotypic teacher views and other adjustment indicators was consistently higher for African…

Comparison of two graduate courses revealed the complex ways in which power relations based on race, class, gender, disability, and sexual orientation interact with theories of mastery, voice, authority, and positionality. Teacher and learner power relations particularly influenced classroom dynamics. (SK)

Contrasts the technological methods discourse of technology education, which emphasizes "universal man," with discourses that include gender and race in the vision of what technology is and for whom and by whom it is designed. Offers ideas for opening technology disclosures to difference. (SK)

As a part of a larger hermeneutic phenomenology study, six white graduate students in a student affairs graduate program described themselves as connected to family, place, race, and ethnicity. Such connections are contrasted with descriptions in the literature of white culture as individualistic. These connections have implications for student…

Analyzes the practice of race norming (adapting test scores on the basis of race/ethnicity) and its justification. Outlines the background of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, which prohibited race norming, and considers future implications for recruitment and selection. (SK)

Examines the implications of court cases challenging the legality of affirmative action policies of college and university financial aid programs. Explains five exceptions to requirements that such programs be race-neutral. These exceptions are: when aid is for disadvantaged students, authorized by Congress, to remedy the effects of past…

Presents a comprehensive picture of the student affairs scholarship published in the "NASPA Journal" from 1967 to 1996 that focused on racial and ethnic topics. A thematic analysis suggests the published articles moved from themes of "concern and assessment" to themes of ethnic and racial minority students as multidimensional…

Presents a conversation between the two authors as they attempt to confront the construction of "whiteness" as a silent but potent epistemology that pervades writing instruction and contributes to racism within academic institutions. Discusses pedagogical practices as well as university policies, focusing particularly on the subject positions of…

A meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of client-clinician matching on the basis of race-ethnicity on overall functioning, service retention, and total number of sessions attended for African American and Caucasian American adult populations in mental health services. The analysis included 10 published and unpublished studies…

This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with each other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures. The multiracial categories used here are derived from youths' reports of their own and their parents' race(s). Comparisons are made within groups of multiracial respondents who make…