In response to identified needs, a specialized graduate level program leading to an M.A. in Social Science was developed jointly by Azusa Pacific College and the Pasadena Unified School District. The goal of this program is to focus on the problems and tensions involved in integrating an entire school community, and to enhance skills of…

The objectives of the Institute were to provide selected elementary school principals of North Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama with information, insights, and skills necessary to cope with problems arising from school desegregation. The participants within the service area of Florida State University were involved in twenty…

BASED ON A STUDY OF THREE COMMUNITIES, GENERALIZATIONS AND PROPOSITIONS WERE PRESENTED ON THE TOPIC OF EDUCATIONAL DECISION-MAKING. THE INTERACTIONS OF FOUR GROUPS-{(1) NON-SCHOOL CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY, (2) CITIZENS WHO HOLD OFFICIAL POSITIONS IN THE SCHOOL ORGANIZATION, (3) SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND (4) SCHOOL TEACHERS--WERE ANALYZED TO SHOW…

Three studies examined the hypothesis that if discrimination is mediated through the perception of the out-group as a deindividuated unit, then individuation of the out-group should lessen the intergroup distinction, thereby ameliorating the bias. Subjects were college students. (Author/MP)

Argues that delinquency is an expression of intergroup conflict and that both ethnic minorities and youth are in conflict with the dominating elements in society. (Author/RK)

Analyzes the work of Jupiter Hammon, a black slave poet, who wrote "A Dialogue Entitled the Kind Master and the Dutiful Servant". (AM)

Finds that, although reporters and legislators in Colorado have similar views, reporters recognize this fact and legislators do not. (KS)

Analyzes ambiguities and ambivalences that define competitive and cooperative relationships among academic women, especially those doing feminist scholarship, and urges that the most positive aspects of both be used to help women succeed in male-dominated academia. (LHW)

Reports that the conceptual and empirical distinctions between symbolic racism and "old fashioned" prejudice have been exaggerated. Symbolic racism may be best understood as one symptom of generalized tendencies to derogate outgroups' tendencies associated with personal attributes that reflect commitments to conservative sociopolitical…

The books and articles of Charles Alexander Eastman can be grouped into three general categories: information about his life; information concerning Indian life, customs, and religion; and information dealing with Indian and white relations. (Author/NQ)

The human rights movement appears obsolete in America, and human rights workers seem to be marking time as they are forced to wait on a climate more conducive to action. (DM)

Outlined is a therapeutic approach to intercession in intergroup conflict which involves establishing and institutionalizing linkages of communication and contact between the hostile parties. Comments by Edward W. Barrett and Melvin Guyer follow. (Author/BY)

The changing status of people of lower socioeconomic backgrounds threatens the myths of the dominant society, which are being secularized by urban life, due to great encounters between those who are marginal and those who are central. The intergroup worker faces change in his role as a result of this secularization. (DM)