In this study, individual-oriented and system-oriented models of systemic rejection among white and black adolescents are investigated. Systemic rejection is defined as attitudes of political alienation and political violence justification. Twelve hypotheses were generated and tested using survey data collected in May 1976 from a random sample of 480 New Haven, Connecticut adolescents. It was found that among both white and black adolescents, attitudes of political alienation and political violence justification were, when factor analyzed, statistically independent political orientations. In comparing white and black adolescents' responses on the five indicators employed in the model of systematic rejection antecedents, major response differences did not occur, although the black adolescents did evince greater political alienation and more critical-threatening perceptions of the sociopolitical system's functioning. Whereas the model predicted feelings of political alienation among both racial groups equally well, it served as a better predictor of political violence justification among the white adolescents. These findings are considered to be within the context of extant political socialization theory and contemporary democratic theory. (Author/JM)