THE NEGRO IN OUR SOCIETY FACES DISABILITIES AND DISADVANTAGES THAT APPLY WITH PARTICULAR FORCE TO HIS HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND HEALTH. IT IS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE NEGROES' POSITION IN RELATION TO A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM TO IMPROVE SOCIAL CONDITIONS FOR ALL CITIZENS OF BOSTON. THE FIRST PART OF THE STUDY IS CONCERNED WITH THE HISTORICAL…

IN THIS ARTICLE THE ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS TOWARD THEIR EXPERIENCES IN GHETTO SCHOOLS ARE SET FORTH, AND THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL SEGREGATION ARE CATALOGED. THE RACISM IN AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THE EFFECTS OF SUMMER RIOTS ON EDUCATION ARE ALSO BRIEFLY DISCUSSED. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN "EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP," VOLUME 25,…

This paper deals with the experiences of two psychiatric consultants at four public elementary schools in the central Harlem area of New York City. Administrative conflicts resulted in the abandonment of the consultation project at one school. In the remaining three schools the consultants provided help as specifically requested by the school…

In 1970, three studies were conducted for the Children's Television Workshop in the ghetto areas of Bedford Stuyvesant and East Harlem in New York City and Washington, D.C. The Bedford Stuyvesant study was designed to establish a reliable reading on the penetration of Sesame Street in low income areas and to determine whether or not the program…

This 9-month training program for paraprofessionals started in June 1969 with a 6-week summer session, followed by fall and spring semesters in 1969 and 1970. Its objectives were to train indigenous nonprofessionals as teacher aide assistants for employment in inner city and ghetto schools, to meet the current shortage of certificated bilingual…

The Health Educator Program provides for indigenous personnel as communication links with residents of urban slums; they visit the homes and teach basic principles of cleanliness and health. Frequently their work involves relationships between landlord and tenant or cooperation with other city departments. A pioneer program in Chicago was so…

This paper explores behavior patterns of lower class black adolescents and contends that their seemingly illogical and irrational behavior is, in fact, meaningful and utilitarian within the context of their environments. The effects of social and residential segregation and the lack of stable social institutions reinforce strong feelings of group…

The stated aim of "Outside the Net" is to analyze and reveal the dominant educational system from a radical perspective and to work to create a new one. To that end it publishes articles critical of the present educational system, such as a critique of the "cult of I.Q." and an expose of racism in Nancy Drew mysteries. The…

This book discusses the economics of immigration, analyzing immigrants' skills, national origins, welfare use, economic mobility, and impact on the labor market and using new data to trace current trends in ethnic segregation. Twelve chapters examine (1) "Reframing the Immigration Debate"; (2) "The Skills of Immigrants"; (3)…

Analysis of data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988, linked to neighborhood-level 1990 census data, indicates that neighborhood characteristics not only predict educational outcomes but also rival the strength of commonly cited family- and school-related predictors. Collective socialization was the strongest of proposed…

Discusses the problems of public policy responses to the AIDS epidemic in relation to a number of recent research reports and analyses. Suggests that effective policy will be increasingly difficult to formulate as AIDS becomes focused in the Black and Hispanic ghettos. (FMW)

Historically, schools serving impoverished families trapped in America's urban "ghettos" have been resistant to community participation. Enhanced participation is critically needed, however, if long-term urban school-reform projects and efforts to develop more empowering, community-supporting forms of pedagogy are to succeed. This article examines…

Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added…

The United States has one of the highest poverty rates in the industrialized world, especially among its children and the working poor. The underclass is comprised of a group of 2.5 million chronically poor people who live in inner-city communities where crime, drug abuse, teenage childbearing, dropping out of school, and welfare dependency are…