This study explores questions of identity and culture in an urban high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It draws on personal observations, conversations with teachers and students, experimental work in drama, use of video, and student writings to show how race and identity are negotiated among the diverse students of a high school that…

The black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, born June 27, 1872 and died February 9, 1906, was an unrivalled forerunner of the great literary generation of his race that burst forth after the first World War and founded the Black Renaissance; the concept of La Negritude'' developed principally among poets of African descent before World War 2. (Author/JM)

Argues that black psychologists must play a key role in changing attitudes and behavior if minorities are to succeed in the process of "revolutionizing" the system: black people must get themselves psychologically together, then teach their chaldren how to maintain the mental edge. (Author/JM)

In order to bring the study of bi- and tri-mixed racial groups into the body of racial theory, it is suggested that such groups be viewed as little races.'' Modern change threatens the future of the little races. (DM)

Race awareness in chinese children in Hong Kong was compared with race awareness in American caucasian and Negro children. Results support the generalization that, "...children of subordinate races tend to prefer and identify with members of dominant races, while children of dominant races tend to prefer and identify with members of their own…

Four hundred children, grades 1-12, participated in this study in May, 1968. All schools involved served a mixed low-middle and middle class socioeconomic area in Sacramento, California. (JM)

Reviews the various roles that Black actors have played in American movies and in the development of the motion picture industry. Calls for more important roles for Blacks, both as performers and as writers, directors, and producers. (DA)

Argues that "mere knowledge of any ethnic world view and the adorning of its surface symbols are insufficient for the purposes of self-identity, and attempts to accomplish political goals based on such superficialities are counter productive for the needs of a multi-colored, multi-lingual, technological world community." (Author/JM)

Children's preferences for peers and adults with black or white skin were examined in a semistructured, doll-play interview. Results were discussed in terms of the increasingly favorable perceptions shown by black children for others of like skin color and the implications for selection of adult role models. (Editor/TA)

Examines black adolescence and schooling within the conceptual framework of mediated action theory by analyzing the discourses of six black high school students. These discourses connect the concepts of "space," relating to the body, and "place," in the sense of arrangement of public institutions, to the political construction…

Analyses of data from 12,386 adolescents showed that ethnic identity is an important qualifier of the relationships between independent variables of ethnicity and gender and dependent variables of self-esteem, academic self-confidence, and purpose in life. Whites and Native Americans had lower ethnic identity, and Blacks and Hispanics had higher…

Tests the hypothesis that supervisees' (N=116) multicultural case conceptualization ability and self-reported multicultural competence are functions of their racial identity and their supervisors' instruction to focus on multicultural issues. Results indicate that supervisees' racial identity was significantly related to self-reported…

Examines the race ambiguity of South Asians and the risk of being socially ignored and marginalized, including that of the pan-Asian movement. It argues that recent participation of second-generation South Asians in protesting anti-Asian hate crimes and discrimination in higher education bespeak the possibilities of a pan-Asian grouping that is…

Surveyed 46 middle- and working-class Mexican American students and 52 middle-class African American students from ethnically diverse high schools in southern California as to American identity, other-group attitudes, self-concept, anxiety, and demographic characteristics. Found varied types of identification manifested by ethnic minority…