This volume includes eight essays. In his "Foreword," Carl Senna examines the revival of the hereditarian position by Arthur Jensen. "Race and Intelligence" contains a critique of Richard C. Lewontin of Jensen's argument, revealing what appear to be deeply embedded assumptions derived from a particular world view. David Z. Robinson, in "If You're…

Literature and the education process, if carefully selected, can give students a more realistic view of themselves, their history, their families, their peers, and others unlike themselves. The teacher should be able to select reading materials that will better acquaint students with similarities and dissemilarities in the lives of different…

Cognitive deficits in black and other minority children have been assumed, described, and then explained. In direct and indirect ways, the "evidence," especially in the broad public domain has been mounting to suggest a genetic cause for discovered differences between racial groups on test of aptitude and achievement. It is the purpose of the…

The attitudes of nine teachers in three graded, open classrooms toward their home-base pupils were measured using Schaefer's Classroom Behavior Inventory (CBI). CBI explores teacher perception of the child's behavior in the area of extraversion-introversion, task orientation-distractability, and hostility-considerateness. The total group of 87…

This book includes nine essays. In the Introduction: "The Lingering Infatuation with IQ," the editors argue that since the IQ test has again risen as an instrument of conservative policy, the test and the arguments built around it must be reexamined. Noam Chomsky criticizes the well-known "Atlantic" article, "IQ" (September, 1971), in "The Fallacy…

The Center for Research in Social Change at Emory University has been studying various aspects of political and social change since 1966. As part of its efforts, the Center established a Civil Aggression Study Team (CAST). Before participating in the survey on which this report is based, CAST had analyzed a number of local events and had prepared…

This study examines the hypothesis that the accuracy of teachers' evaluations of their students is higher if (1) the teacher and the student are of the same race, and (2) the teacher and the student are of the same sex. Data were collected in the 1969 Survey on Compensatory Education, a survey of national scope sponsored by the U.S. Office of…

Two of the groups whose relationship represents one of the most critical social problem areas are also the groups on whom there is a large amount of data. These are American Negroes and American Caucasians, or in today's terminology, blacks and whites. Some data relevant to the design of programs of social action suggest the following: The mean…

This book explores and explains communication among different racial groups within the scope of existing communication theory. Following a brief introduction, chapters cover "Directions in Transracial Communication" (definitions, process, structurization, and purpose); "Culture and Transracial Communication" (a viewpoint on…

Random telephone surveys in a northern and a southern city were initiated to determine attitudes toward "informative" and "direct reference" mass media political advertisements. Responses were organized in regional, social, and racial categories. The results quantified reactions to the two types of political messages of blacks…

This study attempts to evaluate the psychologic effects of school desegregation on seventh-, eighth, and ninth-grade students in three Southern cities by using a standardized self-concept scale. Previous research leaves us with the basic assumptions that prior to 1954 black children in seventh, eighth, and ninth grades in public schools in the…

Contents of this book include: Part I: "The Nursery School and Its Racial Integration"--introduction, establishing physical and psychological integration; staff meetings; observing and working through; Part II: "Theory and Practice"--skin color anxiety: the skin and its importance in personality development; skin color anxiety, the visual impact,…

Subjective culture is a cultural group's characteristic way of perceiving its social environment. An important aspect of a social environment are the jobs available for the consideration of an individual. The present study is an exploratory study directed at the examination of job perceptions among a group of white and black adolescents and the…

This study is concerned with attitudes of family members, and whether such attitudes indeed vary with different family structures. The increasing sociological and psychiatric evidence seems to support the existence of family strengths in families which have been defined as unstable because of structural attributes. Given the historical character…

"Psychological Assessment in Education and Social Class," a paper presented at the University of Missouri conference on the "Legal and Educational Consequences of the Intelligence Testing Movement: Handicapped and Minority Group Children," is provided. The historical origins of the scheme of norm-referenced testing and the evidence questioning its…