Study finds that lower SES high school graduates from metropolitan areas experience more difficulty in attaining college degrees that higher status students. Also, minorities from predominantly minority high schools have more difficulties than minorities from predominantly White schools. (DM)

Suggests that women of African descent should name and define their unique movement "Africana Womanism" to distinguish it from limitations implicit in the notion of Black feminism. The movement advocates the rejection of all vestiges of White patriarchy and seeks to combat the triple oppressions of racism, classism, and sexism. (AF)

Examined school and neighborhood friendships of 292 Black junion high school students and White junior high school students. Findings suggest that there may be important differences in peer friendship networks of Blacks and Whites. Results also suggest the importance of school and nonschool settings in friendship patterns of the two groups. (PCB)

Explores Black and White attendance in American art events. Blacks generally participated more in Afro-American events, Whites in Euro-American. Differences greatest in public consumption, smaller in private. Assesses cultural convergence and competition theories with survey data. Discusses need for middle-class minorities to cultivate membership…

Differentiated roles of kin and formal assistance in instrumental care and decision making using interviews with 193 White and 51 Black family caregivers. Results revealed few differences in size of support networks. White elders were twice as likely to participate centrally in decision regarding their care as were Blacks. Found notable absence of…

Learning disabled (LD) adults eligible for vocational rehabilitation were compared with LD high school seniors. Differences between the two groups included a significantly greater percentage of Whites in the adult group and more self-reported problems in such areas as daily living skills and vocational adjustment by the adults. (Author/DB)

The Golden Rule settlement's application in Illinois has not improved passing rates for Blacks on licensing tests relative to Whites. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) will apply the Golden Rule procedure in Illinois as long as the settlement remains in effect, but opposes it as precedent for other legislation. (SLD)

Investigated the relationship of several demographic variables, family structure and family environment among 68 official chronic delinquents and 130 official nondelinquents. Results indicated that 10 variables explained 49 percent of the variance between the chronic delinquent and nondelinquent groups. Personal growth had most discriminating…

In New Jersey suburban communities, blacks were most exposed to property and violent crime and whites and Asians were least exposed. Individual characteristics such as home ownership, income, and education did predict crime level of an individual's community, but contextual factors (community racial composition, poverty, and population size)…

An analysis of intelligence quotient (IQ) in relation to head size was performed on about 14,000 children aged 4 and 7 years, almost equally divided by race (white and black) and sex. Correlation between head size (by inference, brain size), and IQ is established as a within-families correlation. (SLD)

Interview results obtained from African American summer research program students indicated that, at the completion of the program, those with black or female mentors had more positive perceptions and attitudes toward research and the research environment that those with white male mentors. (Author)

Data from a longitudinal study of 451 deaf adolescents found racial, gender, and possibly social class effects in their education. Some evidence also suggested interaction of these effects. The study supports consideration of the concept of race in relation to deaf education, in terms of parental income, educational attainment, and language…

Assessed perceptions of graduate students in student affairs regarding their interracial experiences, knowledge, and skills. Master's degree students (n=453) from 28 student affairs preparation programs reported limited experiences and knowledge about persons of color, yet comfort with their skill level in working with visible racial and ethnic…

Investigated household arrangements of adolescent mothers. Data from 1980 U.S. Census showed that arrangements varied by marital status, race/ethnicity, age, number of children, and central city residence. Found differences by race/ethnicity in how other variables related to household arrangements. Household arrangements were related to school…

A longitudinal study of 450 adolescents and their parents, begun when the adolescents were ages 12 to 13, found that parental drinking frequency was a predictor of alcohol use at ages 14 to 15 for both black and white adolescents. Good family management practices and proscriptions against involving children in other family members' alcohol use…