This paper considers the construction and experience of racisms among a sample of primary school children in Ireland during a period of intensive immigration. Placing children's voices at the centre of the analysis, it explores how children's constructions draw upon discourses of "norm" and "other" in relation to national…

To determine whether or not a statistically significant relationship existed between the learning styles and reading achievement of sixth-grade students in the State of Alabama a battery of four learning style inventories (Gregorc Style Delineator, Hunt Paragraph Completion Method, Renzulli-Smith Learning Style Inventory, and Carbo Reading Style…

This paper discusses the paradoxes of racial perceptions among Puerto Ricans who were born and bred in Puerto Rico and those born in the mainland United States. The first section deals with the history of different races in Puerto Rico and discusses some of the ways in which Puerto Ricans classify themselves in terms of race. In order to clarify…

Based upon a paper presented at the National Council of Teachers of English 1967 Annual Convention.

The free jazz movement of the 1960s provided a rhetorical parallel in music to the verbal messages of black power and black nationalism. The use of Third World musical patterns represented an attempt to reinforce the revolutions in perceptions that black Americans held of themselves, their cultural heritage, and relationships to the rest of the…

The purpose of this study was to explore on a preliminary basis teachers' perceptions and prejudices with regard to pupils' race. Individual interviews with 96 teachers included their labeling and sorting of pupil photographs. The left-to-right valence framework of the Self-Social Symbols Tasks was utilized as an unobtrusive measure of prejudice.…

Detailing the rise and fall of Louis Sockalexis (1871-1913) who was the first American Indian to play in the major baseball leagues, this brief biography emphasizes Sockalexis's: (1) exceptional athletic ability; (2) culture conflict when, as a minority member, he entered main stream American life; (3) problems with alcohol and the ultimate demise…

This collection of 15 biographies was prepared to illustrate, for classroom purposes, some of the well-known contemporary Indian, Eskimo, and Metis people in Canada today. (MJB)

The relationship between family ethnic homogeneity or heterogeneity and children's identity was examined. Students from four ethnic groups completed a questionnaire. A strong relationship was found between ethnic identity and desire to marry in their own ethnic group. The relationship between children's ethnic identity and parents' marriage was…

Argues that public policy in higher education desegregation is linked to conceptual confusion and inadequacies in sociology. The proper reconceptualization of social policy would be grounded on a science of society in which assimilation is postulated as a competing conceptual tool, along with the growing body of dynamic social and sociological…

To explain Black students' underachievement we must consider Black peoples' expressive responses to their historical status and experience in America. "Fictive kinship" is proposed as a framework for understanding how a sense of collective identity enters into the process of schooling and affects academic achievement. (Author/LHW)

The attitudinal responses of 119 White undergraduates to the terms "Black,""Negro," and "Afro-American" were measured. The apparent negative connotations of the first two terms suggest that using "Afro-American" would remove the ambiguity of when to capitilize; formalize the "African Connection"; attenuate White hostilities; and, finally, connote…

Children of intermarriages have special needs. They often encounter prejudice from other family members such as grandparents, and, in general, society does not know how to regard them. A bicultural approach to childbearing is necessary; it is most important that a child learn about the culture of the parent of color. (KH)

Studies whether there are any differences in the racial identification or the racial preferences (positive and negative) of contemporary dark-skinned and light-skinned Black children, and contrasts findings with the Clarks' racial identification and preference study of the early 1940s. (CMG)