The development of Africa-oriented social movements is divided into five periods: (1) the genesis of the return-to-Africa movement, 1790-1840; (2) the quest for nationality, 1845-1861; (3) the roots of Pan-Africanism, 1870-1915; (4) the Garvey movement, 1916-1930; and (5) the recent Black liberation movement, inspired by Malcolm X and operating in…

Analysis of recent presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections has given rise to the conclusions that traditional party loyalties are waning, while an imcumbent remains extremely difficult to unseat. The analysis of lower level elections in New York City indicates that, although incumbents run strong, party partisanship remains very…

Caryl M. Kline, the first woman to hold the position of Secretary of Education of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is interviewed. It is shown that despite eliciting admiration and respect, she did not survive the political process. Her personal and professional accomplishments are outlined. (Author/LBH)

Examines how a professional educational organization such as the American Educational Studies Association can influence the political decision making process in the area of educational issues. (Author/DB)

Various aspects which contribute to the political activities of adult educators are examined: (1) attitudes toward political activity, (2) efforts undertaken to influence legislation and government policy, and (3) methods by which adult educators have organized themselves to increase their role in political decision making involving adult…

Rural senators were found to be more accurate in assessing their constituents' opinions and were more likely to vote according to the wishes of their constituency than were urban senators. (KS)

Explores both paranoid and non-paranoid political discourse including the nature of the evidence and the extent to which such evidence is distorted. Contends that study results affirm the value of the Hofstadter evidence-inference dichotomy. (MH)

This is a study of Congressional behavior, voting and otherwise, on the issue of the appropriation to Howard University during the period 1879-1928. (Author/AM)

Analyzes the impact of the Voting Rights Act on black voter registration in Mississippi. Concludes that the future of black politics is highly uncertain in Mississippi. If the movement on the part of whites to disenfranchise blacks succeeds, and intimidation at the polls continues, advances made in the early 1970s could be seriously undermined.…

The results of the introduction of politics into education can be a new kind of leadership that pursues educational goals through the acceptable, honorable, democratic processes of this country. (Author/IRT)

This paper examines historical and future conceptions of adolescence, focusing on how colonialism and its racist underpinnings helped produce turn-of-the-century scientific knowledge about adolescence, using critiques of colonialist discourse to examine the persistence of the youth-as-primitive view, and discussing three dimensions of knowledge…

Analyzes the rhetoric of history as it functions in Robert J. Connors'"Teaching and Learning as a Man" (published in the February 1996 issue of "College English"). Shows how Connors' historical account of a shift from agonistic to feminist values in composition studies reveals unexamined political and ideological positions that…

Outlines, via the fictional character Horace, what many of today's English teachers may be feeling: the compromises, frustrations, and hopes involved in their work. Discusses reform today, maintaining the status quo, and an emerging pattern of change in high schools. Finds cause for hope in the troubled indecision of most Americans about what is…