Discusses Black studies as coherent system, involving history, economics, sociology, and cultural education. Holds that Black studies, if approaches as a multidisciplinary enterprise, can be used to solve some of the most basic problems of the Black community. (GC)

Contrasts the rhetoric of Communist pamphlets in the periods before and after 1935. Examines the Third Period's advocacy of violent overthrow of the government and the Popular Front's appeal to cooperation and unity in opposition to fascism. Analyzes the lack of success of both movements in the United States. (JMF)

The current debate about whether to permit the use of heroin in the management of dying patients is symptomatic of a larger problem: the lack of a humanistic approach to the care of the incurably ill. (Author)

The history of the Congress for Change, a professional librarian's group favoring aggressive library response to societal problems, is highlighted, and its past and present objectives are reviewed. (MBR)

Unemployment has social costs such as psychological harm, social exclusion, family breakdown, and loss of political voice. It can exacerbate inequality and technological conservatism. Reducing unemployment would contribute to solving many of Europe's social ills. (SK)

Describes a "criticalmathematics" approach to teaching statistics that uses gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual issues and statistics about them as teaching examples. The inclusions of these social issues gives the analysis of statistical data more relevance and encourages students to question, understand, and confront information more…

Proposes intentionally designed, permanent spaces on campuses for identifying, studying, deliberating, and planning action regarding pressing issues with ethical or social implications. Describes ways conversations can be structured on campus to practice and teach the skills of democratic dialogue. (SLD)

Examines whether viewpoints on a diverse set of contemporary issues differ by racial groups. Results revealed significant differences in viewpoints tested at the point of college entry between racial groups. Although individuals of any given racial category held the full range of opinions, as a group, average viewpoints about certain social,…

Members of a stigmatized group may protect global feelings of self-worth by: (1) attributing negative feedback to prejudice; (2) comparing outcomes with those of their ingroup; and (3) selectively devaluing areas in which their group does poorly and valuing dimensions in which their group excels. (SLD)

Argues that children's writers have a responsibility to create an early awareness of such issues as race, terrorism, poverty, and other disasters of human society. Suggests that if children learn to confront life as it is, they may learn to strive to make it better. (MM)

Discusses risk assessment, including risk assessment as a modeling process, models and social values, political decision making, the public, and risk assessment techniques in the biology classroom. (MKR)

By skillfully structuring volunteer assignments, organizations can be successful in persuading a significant number of retirees to accept assignments and to devote a minimum of two days a week to those assignments. (Author/JOW)

Asserts that the strengths perspective, which posits that the strengths and resources of people and their environment should be the central focus of the helping process in social work, can be used to reformulate problem-focused, pathology-centered approaches to social policy development. Discusses methods for initiating this integration. (JPS)

Presents a script for a 1-act play about a 17-year-old girl whose mother neglects her and her alcoholic absentee father. Relates how the protagonist, Tara, becomes pregnant by a classmate who she barely knows, and plans to leave home to raise her child alone after graduating high school. (PA)