Music Education, as well as cultural and musical identities are all being renegotiated, post-Apartheid, within the so-called "newer" rather than the commonly known "new" South Africa. The developing situation with certain minority groups is particularly interesting. Education in general has undergone much change since the first…

In September 1957, nine brave Black students crossed a line of armed soldiers to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in the first major test of school desegregation after "Brown v. Board of Education" toppled the notion of "separate but equal." Though this is still an operating high school, on most days…

Background: Before 1999, there was little research on teachers and apartheid aside from some biographical sketches. "A Mother and Her Daughters" is part of an ongoing oral history project of teachers who fought apartheid. It is contextualized through the literature on Jews and apartheid in South Africa and joins the growing literature on…

Diversity communication and training are recent phenomena in South African workplaces. The demise of apartheid, new political dispensation, and reentry onto the world stage have all contributed to creating an opportunity for diversity. Accelerated corporate interest in this field may be linked to government pressure, globalization, and the much…

In this review essay, Harvey Kantor and Robert Lowe explore the history of the culture wars in public education in the United States. Drawing on three books--David Tyack's "Seeking Common Ground," Jonathan Zimmerman's "Whose America?" and Amy Binder's "Contentious Curricula"--Kantor and Lowe review the history of…

Reexamines Coleman's research findings that support the theory of white flight. (IRT)

In the 1800s there were few opportunities for blacks who wanted to become physicians. Harvard and Bowdoin began accepting black students in the 1840s, but "whites only" policies existed at most schools until the 1960s. The majority of black doctors were trained in Europe or at one of the black medical colleges established after the Civil War. A…

Delineates some research recommendations for the group which attended the National Conference on Black Women in America so that those who represent the various disciplinary areas could evaluate them to determine whether or not they might be applicable in their own communities. (Author/JM)

PROOF IS PRESENTED THAT RACIAL SEGREGATION IS INCREASING RATHER THAN DECREASING IN THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE SITUATION IS CREDITED TO A SCHOOL BOARD AND AN ADMINISTRATION THAT HAVE SHUNNED OR SUBVERTED THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ITS OWN SELECTED EXPERTS, CONTINUED PAST PROCEDURES THAT FOSTER SEGREGATION, AND FAILED TO ADOPT ANY VIABLE PLAN FOR…

BASED ON A SERIES OF FILMS PRODUCED BY WGBH-TV, BOSTON UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL RELATIONS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, "EPTITAPH FOR JIM CROW" PRESENTED DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE NEGRO PROBLEM IN AMERICA. THE FIRST CHAPTER, "A TALE OF TWO LADIES," EMPHASIZED A KNOWLEDGE OF THE NEGRO ROLE IN AMERICA'S SOCIAL AND…

A DIGEST OF RESEARCH ARTICLES USED IN SOCIAL RESEARCH AND SOCIAL ACTION WAS PRESENTED. DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT AREAS, THE ARTICLES WERE CONDENSED INTO ABSTRACTS. THE ARTICLES OF GENERAL INTEREST WERE CONCERNED WITH SUCH SUBJECTS AS SEGREGATION IN AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND RECOGNITION OF THE ROLE OF MINORITIES. SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN VARIOUS…

This study employed Office of Civil Rights enrollment data on higher education institutions to examine the relationship between segregation and the participation of blacks and whites in colleges and universities. Institutional comparisons showed that segregation was greatest in two and four year colleges where blacks had achieved the greatest…

Racial residential segregation has been a persistent feature of the American housing market. At least three distinct theories have been presented to explain this racial segregation. The "class" theory claims that, due to disproportionate overrepresentation of blacks in lower income classes, they will be overrepresented in lower quality housing…