This paper examines cultural mistrust of whites and its resulting manifestations, particularly Black nationalism. First, working definitions of racism and stress are given, to place cultural mistrust in the context of a coping style used to respond to racism. As one coping style, Black nationalism involved a rejection of White political and social…

Primarily historical, the study examines the case of one absentee Native American band struggling to establish its identity and directions for a more prosperous future, and projects the implications of their situation for their intercultural relations. The central research question asks what are the intercultural communication problems which…

While research has shown that both black and white children can clearly discriminate (usually through the use of dolls or puppets) with respect to ethnic identification by the age of 3-4 years, findings regarding ethnic preference are more complex. Researcher W.C. Banks has implied that research designs that compare ethnic preferences across…

A study was conducted to examine the background factors related to two racial attitudes of blacks--black identity and alienation from white society in the United States--and to investigate the relationship between these two conceptually different notions of black racial attitudes. An area probability design was employed and 324 black adults living…

IT IS POINTED OUT THAT AMERICANS WILL BE ATTEMPTING AN ENERGETIC CORRECTION, BY FEDERAL EFFORT, OF SOME OF THE RACIAL TROUBLES WHICH BESET THEM IN NORTHERN CITIES AND IN MORE RURAL SOUTHERN AREAS. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS TREND ARE AN AWAKENED NATIONAL CONSCIENCE, A MARKED TENDENCY TO UNDERTAKE, BY PUBLIC MEANS, MATTERS ONCE THOUGHT SUITABLE…

Explored in this article is the thesis that physical anthropologists, who believe in the existence of race, issue from identifiable social backgrounds of relative privilege, status, and power, while those who do not come from more socially marginal backgrounds. (Author/EB)

Discusses the literary and philosophical writings of Alain Locke, focusing on his views of the relations between race, ethnicity, and art. Analyzes the tension between Locke's support for Black writers and his belief that they must strive to "universalize" their work for a non-Black audience. (KH)

Reports on a survey which examined reading materials used in one city in Great Britain, noting occurrences of Black characters and the roles they played in the texts. Found that Blacks are underrepresented and are often portrayed negatively. (ARH)

Blacks, now distributed throughout the world, have everywhere maintained some Africanisms that reflect their cultural heritage. An awareness of these Africanisms can unite Blacks throughout the diaspora and contribute to their international quest for liberation and national identity. (KH)

Examined Black students' attitudes toward counseling, preferences for an ethnically similar counselor, and preferences for mental health resources within the framework of a model for racial identity. Results indicated that Black students' attitudes toward counseling are an interactive function of sex and racial identity. (BL)

Because of their unique social, legal, and political status, American Indians and Alaska Natives are subject to legislative oversight unlike any other group in the United States. Census data are used to monitor the size and characteristics of the American Indian and Alaska Native population living on and off reservations. Passed in 1978 to ensure…

This study explored white students' level of racial/ethnic identity development and whether pre-college characteristics and patterns of participation in curricular and co-curricular activities influenced identity development. This research focused on white students who attended a predominately Hispanic community college. Racial/ethnic identity…

This conceptual analysis discusses how Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" theorizes the transformation of the oppressor. This work has played a major role in the creation, maintenance, and reinvigoration of critical pedagogy. The paper describes Freire's theory for transforming the oppressor and critically assesses his theory.…

This report addresses issues that data users will face in using, interpreting, and presenting new data on race from the 2000 census, which allowed multiple racial responses. Changing how the census collects data on race is not new. Almost every census for the past 200 years has collected racial data differently than the previous census. New…

This article applies pragmatic thinking to a moral problem in a multicultural classroom: how to draw together students' diverse experiences and familiarity with racial identity development for productive examination of white privilege, racial identity development, and the social construction of race in the United States. This analysis reveals…