Analyzes study data to determine the interconnections of race, gender, and class among Black women, specifically examining the extent to which they are conscious of their roles as females and as Blacks. Results indicate interrelationship between Black women's race consciousness and gender consciousness and higher race and gender consciousness for…

A study of 11,136 1987 medical school seniors' specialty choices, before entering medical school and in preparation for residency, found similar preferences at both points, regardless of racial-ethnic background. (Author/MSE)

Discusses stage model describing racial identity and consciousness development process among majority (i.e., Euro-Anglo White) counselor trainees esconced in a multicultural learning environment. Proposes four-stage developmental model wherein trainees come to acknowledge and accept their own racial identity and that of minorities. (BH)

As more and more White middle-class families adopt children of other races, educators need to be even more sensitive to the individuality of their students. (Author/TE)

Describes the rhetoric and goals of groups who have opposed and supported transracial adoption in the United States. Summarizes the current status of statutory and case law bearing on transracial adoption, and presents the results of a longitudinal study of families who adopted children of another race. (TJQ)

Discusses Asiacentrism and its place in Asian American Studies, what can be learned from Afrocentrism as a paradigm, and the political and philosophical implications of Asiacentrism. The authors propose the development of an Asiacentric paradigm as a critique of the dominant Eurocentrism in theory-building in Asian American Studies. (GR)

Examines attitudes of 173 black thinkers about racial and ethnic identity and membership in the intellectual subsociety, and establishes an empirical basis for thinking about African American intellectuals. Survey responses and follow-up interviews with 20 subjects indicate the existence of marked differences between black and white intellectuals.…

Explores the independent contribution of interpersonal relationships, parental attachment, and racial/ethnic identity to traditional-age undergraduate women's autonomy development, removing the effect of biographical correlates. Differences by race/ethnicity and by residence status in relationship to factors of autonomy are investigated.…

Describes the perceived failure of integration and the growing number of black Americans who are looking at the world from an African perspective instead of from the European-centered perspective that dominates American culture. The article explains Afrocentrism's appeal in giving Blacks an ideological unity, not just on color but as an expression…

Explored the usefulness of the Themes Concerning Blacks (TCB) as a measure of racial identification among 109 adult American blacks, African Dutch, and African Surinamese. Findings reveal no significant differences between the three groups regarding story themes and story outcomes. Stories did differ significantly in emotional tone. Racial…

Examined relationship of racial identity attitudes to psychosocial development of white and African-American traditional-age undergraduate female college students (n=320). Correlations found between racial identity attitudes and psychosocial development suggest two separate developmental processes for African-American undergraduate women and two…

Reviews a monograph by Census Bureau and private-sector researchers that attempts to give an overview of important characteristics of the U.S. Indian population and to explain problems in census data collection and interpretation. Discusses the ongoing difficulties related to identification of American Indians and implications for the…

Presents demographic information about biracial persons, reviews previous models of racial identity development, discusses their shortcomings when applied to biracial persons, and presents new model of racial identity development focusing on unique aspects of the experience of biracial individual in the United States. Presents counseling…

Analyzes "Amos 'n' Andy," a key text in the evolution of broadcast forms. Examines its institutional context and its representational strategies. Assesses the impact of its discourse on both radio as a cultural form and on the perceptions of listeners, particularly its role in the larger social discourse on race. (SR)

Investigated whether there were distinct behavioral profiles involving perceived and daily stress and Afrocentric identity in a sample of 701 African American college students at historically Black colleges and universities. Afrocentric identity and stress were not correlated, but the cluster with the highest level of Afrocentric identity…