This study focuses on whether external family ties exist as supportive networks by comparing a probability sample of 200 low-income Black females with 371 of their White counterparts. Contradictory evidence is offered regarding the availability and utilization of supportive kin networks by the two groups studied. (Author/EB)

Sets of randomly generated numbers are used to produce simulated data sets to illustrate that high heritability of a property within each of two populations may be consistent with a vanishingly small heritability in the combined population. (A response by Jensen appears in the next issue of Journal of Educational Statistics, p.385). (CTM)

Using three interpretations of community control, the attitudes of local elites in New York City were analyzed. Findings indicate substantial levels of support for some form of community control among both white and minority respondents. (Author/RLV)

Refuting the argument that Canadian Indians cost the taxpayers inordinate sums of money, this article states that Indians cost the government $1,030 per person as compared to $1,485 per person for the remainder of the Canadian population. (JC)

Examines the long range political consequences of the student protest movement using indicators of student and adult political activism and socialization developed to explain the adult left wing politics of students who attended universities in one of the major centers of civil rights protest during the early 1960s. (Author/JM)

Examines the long-range political consequences of the civil rights movement before 1965. Focusing on a group of activists who participated in demonstrations, a theoretical causal model is developed and tested using exogenous and intervening variables to explain adult radical political attitudes and leftist behavior. (Author/JM)

Black commuters in this study, as compared to white commuters, tended to be older; to be married; if female, to travel further; to spend more time and money to commute; and to receive lower grades. Blacks were also more interested in day care; a place to change and stay overnight. (Author)

This research was designed to measure the abilities of black and white students in determining the race and status of a speaker. Forty black and white college undergraduates listened to a tape recording of 24 voices and were asked to distinguish sex, race, and status of speaker. The hypothesis that black students would be more skillful at this…

This study marked the first experimental examination of the Model for Change. Results are not encouraging in terms of the model's effectiveness in altering negative attitudes and behaviors of prospective white teachers. Results suggest the necessity for serious reevaluation of the model as a training method, especially in time-limited situations.…

Subjects were 345 first-, second-, and third-grade children of low SES attending inner city schools in a large metropolitan area. The Purdue Self Concept Scale was the measure of self-concept. Analysis of black second-grade children's scores indicated race difference was due to high scores of those with welfare status. (Author)

Factor analyses for the same 16 variables at grades 5, 7, 9, 11 have been computed for white and black males and females. The latent roots as analyzed in three ways show a clear but small increase in the number of common factors during this time period, particularly for the white groups. (RC)

Twenty undergraduates participated in this study of Voice Onset Time production. Statistically significant differences were found for both gender and race, and considerably more prevoicing was found than in past studies. Results suggest that the normative data presently available are probably inadequate, since the normal distribution of gender and…

Examines black adolescence and schooling within the conceptual framework of mediated action theory by analyzing the discourses of six black high school students. These discourses connect the concepts of "space," relating to the body, and "place," in the sense of arrangement of public institutions, to the political construction…

Critiques the ways problems confronting black males are framed and acted on, focusing on the role of race and gender in the development of interventions. Drawing on research at an urban California high school, the article presents recommendations for programs aimed at the needs of black males that avoid marginalizing those targeted. (SLD)