With the lowest per capita income in the nation and a higher dropout rate than any other state, Mississippi is struggling to remediate deeply entrenched educational problems. Despite a statewide education reform effort that predated the national movement, educators are finding a century of poverty and illiteracy difficult to reverse. (AF)

Examines the relationship between industrialization and the exclusion of southern Blacks from cities and occupations between 1865 and 1910, the era social historians call the "New South." The interaction of such factors as percentage of Blacks, percentage of Whites, and White racism forced Blacks to participate in a secondary labor…

Examined demographic correlates of familial and nonfamilial sources of emergency assistance among Blacks. Data from Panel Study of Income Dynamics-1980 showed both familial and nonfamilial sources of emergency assistance. Revealed age, gender, marital status, and urban-rural differences in sources of assistance. Results highlight importance of…

Reports that, among 689 first graders, the presence of father or other adult in the household had a beneficial effect on grades, particularly for reading, and this effect was greater and more consistent for Blacks than for Whites. Suggests that parental expectations mediate this effect. Contains 49 references. (SV)

With bootstrap methodology, the stability of the Angoff delta item bias index was investigated. Data from item responses of 400 Black and 400 White fifth-grade students taking the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills indicated that the Angoff delta statistic had only moderate stability. (SLD)

Recent recruiting efforts for minority college faculty have amounted to little more than musical chairs, with campuses focusing on hiring minority professors away from each other. Minority-group members need to be steered into undergraduate programs and into graduate school. (MLW)

Analyzes minority graduate school enrollments and the numbers of earned masters, first professional, and doctoral degrees. Outlines short- and long-term solutions to increase the number of potential future minority college faculty. (FMW)

The relationship of reciprocity, sex, and race to friendship proximity in adolescent friendships was studied with 69 male and 67 female seventh and eighth graders (32 percent Black). Four measures were administered concerning adolescents' friendships. Results are reported on intelligence, personality, physical attractiveness, popularity, and…

Discusses some ideas about how Afrocentricity can be promoted and integrated in institutions of higher education in the United States. It argues that Afrocentricity offers an alternative to the more dominant Eurocentric view found in higher education and the world and states that the Eurocentric view subscribes to itself exclusive rights to…

Reasons for declining engineering enrollments, particularly among black, Hispanic, and women students, are not fully understood but may be attributable to low student motivation, poor college preparation, reduction in job opportunities due to corporate downsizing, and decreases in available financial aid. Implications of this trend for overall…

Describes two reference books suitable for middle/junior high school library media centers that present information about African-American women and suggests activities for Afro-American History Month. Library media skills objectives, social studies and art objectives, grade levels, resources, instructional roles, activities and procedures,…

Examines issues associated with transracial (black to white) adoption decisions. Discusses racial disparity in supply and demand for adoptable children, the institutional framework, early development of attachment in children, attachment issues in foster care and adoption, the significance of racial identity in early childhood, racial identity…

Discusses the limiting effects of cultural labeling and class prejudices from an African American folkloric perspective. The author offers examples of African American children's spontaneous narratives that derive from earlier cultural roots and that may be misunderstood in European-heritage classrooms. Concluding comments examine the implications…

Members of academia must cultivate the three virtues of community, collegiality, and diversity. A radical tolerance of differences must be fostered if approachable communities of scholars are to be sustained. Valuing others and making diversity welcome are vital for the well-being of society as a whole. (SLD)

Using data from a 1988 national survey of postsecondary faculty, the study compared publication rates for African American, Asian American, and Hispanic faculty with those of Caucasian faculty. Results did not support the frequently advanced claim that fewer minority faculty receive promotion and tenure because of fewer publications. (Author/MSE)