As the judiciary proved inadequate to protect the right to vote of newly emerging politicized groups, other institutions were called upon to deal with the growing problem of political participation--a challenge to the traditional American optimism regarding this question. (Author/JM)

Attempts to justify increased involvement of black behavioral scientists as health specialists in efforts to improve black health conditions; specifies types of roles which are or ought to be available to black sociologists. (Author/RJ)

The text of a speech which the author delivered at the Black Consciousness Conference, University of Detroit, May 5, 1972. (JM)

Paper presented at the 68th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1972; focuses on the interrelationship of urban structures of dominance, alternative value or meaning systems, and social control. (JM)

An analysis of the President's budget message to the Congress and the provisions of the budget itself which sees the policy therein expressed as the by-product of a view of society and of the proper role of government that is incompatible with the implementation of the precious rights won by minorities in recent years. (Author/JM)

Discusses how the minority school administrator should go about defining his role in the social and power structure of an integrated school, emphasizing that if he defines his role as that of minority expert'' then he is assigning himself a very peripheral position with respect to decision-making. (JM)

The principle task of the political information session, an important form of communist indoctrination in elementary and secondary grades, is to help pupils assimilate and gain a correct understanding of world events and political issues. Newspaper reading, supervised by a teacher, is the basic activity. (KM)

Describes the issues created by the growing number of illegal migrants from Mexico, the Federal legislation pending on the matter, the occasional raids by immigration officials which netted 11,500 illegal aliens last spring and incensed many Mexican-American activities, and the division among Chicanos on the alien issue. (Author/JM)

The problem of the white researcher in black communities is approached from a systems perspective with emphasis on relationships, as opposed to variables: the relationships of concern are those between black communities and educational systems in the communities. (Author/JM)

A critical review of the widespread acceptance of accountability, pointing out that accountability is plagued by difficulties with measuring learning, with lack of research evidence to show that it benefits students, and with few plans for formally evaluating these models on a pilot basis before plunging ahead. (Author/JM)

Assessments of intergroup relations today as deteriorating are not only inaccurate and misleading, but also work against the solution to the very problems deplored: they fail to consider how group relations have been changing for the better with the passage of years and laws. (Author/JM)

Reviews the actions taken by northern black parents in opposition to policies of school segregation. (JM)

The assessed social studies project is designed to teach high school students of average ability to clarify and justify their positions on public issues''; training students to examine and analyze controversial issues through discussion and argument. (Author/SM)