Examines the Holmes report in terms of its discussion of the role of minorities in education. Reviews current literature about minorities in education and offers a rationale for increasing minority participation in the teaching profession. (DH)

Data collected by the Louis Harris polling organization in 1978 concerning Black attitudes toward affirmative action programs were analyzed. It was found that Blacks who are optimistic and do not feel powerless generally support these programs. Whites who were also polled felt ambivalent toward them. (CJM)

The article shows how the domination of nonnative institutions serving indigenous peoplein the Canadian north can be conceptualized and how it is a developmental problem. Attention is focused on the conditions and events leading to the introduction and sudden collapse of a producers cooperative in the ethnically complex community of Fort Rae,…

Explores the myth'' of matriarchy, compares the status of black women with that of white women in terms of marriage, education, income and political participation, and examines the ideology of several black men in order to analyze the black male's participation in upholding the value of male superiority. (RJ)

The concept of the moral failure of the poor which was rooted in pre-colonial European assumptions, and modern American racism had become intimately entwined. Attitudes toward the poor in the 1960's simply reflected the knowledge, concerns, problems, and prejudices of the day. (Author)

Suggests eight principles that might be used in formulating a school program that is more relevant to culturally different groups. (WY)

Explores recent social psychological theorizing on the predicaments of minority identity. A social identity theory, which reveals unjustified assumptions about minority dependence on and conformity with majority values, is contrasted with a conflict perspective in which majority values are the object of both conflict and negotiation. 37…

Pledging allegiance to the flag--and the "one nation under God" it is said to represent--has been second nature to generations of American schoolchildren. Yet few have had as much reason to reflect on the practice as those in Sacramento, California. Since March 2000, California's Elk Grove school district has faced a legal challenge to…

Briefly describes society's perception of black children, black adults' responsibility for black children, and problems encountered in attempting to liberate the black child, asserting that white society has ill-defined and mis-educated the public irrespective of blacks' counter reactions. (Author/JM)

Presents descriptive and analytic data about tolerance for civil liberties and dissent among the American public, asserting that support for free speech and dissent in concrete situations is more limited than support for abstract principles--a gap explained in terms of dynamics of threat, value conflict, cognitive dissociation, and socialization…

Young students not impressed in mind and heart by their school's curricula are likely to be influenced by the media with which they amuse themselves. Video arcade games and television suffused with militarism and violence will help them create their own culture and develop their own values. They may begin to believe nothing can be done to ensure…

The "new" anti-racists of the 1980s in contemporary Britain consider racism, particularly against blacks, as both a structural and a white problem. Anti-racist activists, whose attitude is a mirror-image of the political left's general concern about the media--where blacks are in the minority--regard the media, especially television, as…