Examines residential segregation of urban ethnic groups, identifying residential area types according to the degree of ethnic mixing and evaluating their relative importance in 18 English cities in light of research on processes and patterns involved in segregation. Results find little evidence of significant segregation of black groups but some…

Address given on the 50th Anniversary of the Boston University School of Education, May 4, 1968.

A Paper presented at the National Conference of State Employment Service Counseling Supervisors, Detroit, Michigan, April 5, 1968.

Delivered as a speech to the Eastern Division MENC Meeting (Washington, D. C., February 3, 1969).

Nairobi College, in East Palo Alto, California, is a school concerned with making education relevant to the ghetto community. The school, founded by students, is taught by community members and serves an area that is approximately 80 per cent black. In nine months Nairobi College has enrolled 120 students; 40 instructors offer 25 courses, which…

A discussion of certain methodological issues in linguistics as they bear on the debate over cultural deprivation. Whether or not the non-standard English (NNE) of a minority group can be considered a distinct language with its own grammar is arbitrary and therefore not a useful question. However, one can compare standard and NNE forms for…

Argues that perhaps there is a chance that the drastic conditions existing in the slums (conditions which are spreading to previously stable old neighborhoods) will be the major force which will break the back of factionalism, elitism, and neocolonialism and serve as the lever for authentic democratic community development. (Author/JM)

Examines hypotheses linking lower class leftist radicalism to the political primitivism caused by lack of education, lack of media exposure, infrequent participation in organizations, and personal isolation--on the basis of data from 382 Chilean urban slum dwellers. (RJ)

Explores the psychological and physical environments that surrounded the riots and civil disorders of the 1960's. Urban blacks experienced a widening gap between sharply rising expectations and limited capabilities. Relative deprivation" seems to help account for rioting. (Author/JW)

The recognition of some difficulties in ghetto education does not mean that efforts are not being made to improve schools or that all teachers are ineffectual or that all students are unreceptive. But many variables can affect ghetto education and of prime significance is the teacher student relationship. (Author)

Placement of 20 minority group children in low income minority group foster homes proved highly successful in terms of family adjustment and child behavior modification. (NH)

An analysis of the history of East Harlem reveals the manner in which successive waves of ethnic groups immigrating to this area have displaced each other without merging. (JM)