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Meyer, Jon K. – 1969
Academic and popular writings on the causes, effects, and responses to urban disorders are cited in this bibliography. Although many earlier works are represented, most of the material cited is from the years between 1954 and 1968. Each citation is listed under one of ten broad subject categories. Under each heading, the citations are arranged…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Demonstrations (Civil)
Bonham, Frank – 1970
In "Viva Chicano," the auther "explores with brilliance, warmth, and understanding the fear-ridden world of the juvenile delinquent. Flashes of humor are mixed with sobering realities" for Keeny Duran, living in the Mexican American sector of the vast urban ghetto called Dogtown. In the Author's Note, it is pointed out that the story is true. The…
Descriptors: Crime, Cultural Awareness, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior
Hiatt, Peter – 1971
Three purposes of the institute were: (1) identify needs of ghetto disadvantaged who can be reached by libraries, (2) explore means of responding effectively to these needs and (3) develop administrative approaches and procedures for implementing experimental library programs. Early planning decisions which contributed to the success of the…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Experimental Programs
Rostow, Eugene V. – 1969
An appendix to a staff paper on telecommunications in urban development, submitted to the President's Task Force on Communications Policy, describes possible uses of new communications technology in the ghetto. Television, the most widely spread and most promising medium, has potential for improving education, increasing community awareness, and…
Descriptors: Communications, Community, Community Development, Community Involvement
Oliver, Donald W.; Newmann, Fred M. – 1967
See TE 499 864, above.
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black History, Black Power, Blacks
O'Farrell, Brigid – 1970
Housed in structures formerly used by a church, the 5th City Preschool is located in one of Chicago's poorest black ghettos. The 228 infant-to-kindergarten-age children (78% Black, 22% White) are all from families living in the 5th City area. The program emphasizes the development of the total child and concentrates on helping children to build a…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Child Development, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Passow, A. Harry, Ed. – 1971
A grant from The New World Foundation made possible a series of lectures during the academic year 1969-1970 on the theme "Urban Education in the 1970's." A number of the specialists who had participated in the first work conference were invited to deliver another lecture. Each was asked to take another look at urban education from the vantage of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Ghettos
Lemann, Nicholas – The Atlantic, 1986
The urban Black underclass can be traced to the sharecropper South of a generation ago. The propagation of underclass culture has been hastened by an exodus of working class Blacks from the ghettos. Interviews with urban and rural Blacks help identify the problems of the underclass. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Ghettos, Poverty, Rural to Urban Migration
Lemann, Nicholas – The Atlantic, 1986
The problems that now seem overbearing in the ghettos--out of wedlock childbearing, unemployment, crime, poor educational achievement--have existed in the ghettos for more than half a century. Anecdotal material from a Chicago project highlight these conditions. Federal efforts must focus on helping individuals to escape. (Author)
Descriptors: Blacks, Ghettos, Poverty, Rural to Urban Migration
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Yee, Albert H.; Fruth, Marvin J. – Journal of Negro Education, 1973
This experiment, carried out in the school year following an Integrated Black History Institute conducted during the summer of 1969, attempted to evaluate the effectiveness of the social studies units and instruction developed at the Institute. (JM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Black History, Black Students
Shadick, Robert C. – J Negro Educ, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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Fairchild, Halford H.; Tucker, M. Belinda – Journal of Social Issues, 1982
Uses a multidisciplinary approach to examine trends in Black residential mobility from slavery to the present. Focuses particularly on evolution of urban ghettos and considers present and future public policy issues. (GC)
Descriptors: Black History, Black Population Trends, Ghettos, Industrialization
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Cameron, Jeanne – Educational Foundations, 2000
Discusses how many urban students are written off as unworthy of scant educational resources, using Weber and Marx to discuss how educational triage is best understood theoretically, exploring how broader processes of social distribution and triage link up with daily practices and policies in urban classrooms, and highlighting the need for a…
Descriptors: Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Ghettos, Higher Education
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Rankin, Bruce H.; Quane, James M. – Social Forces, 2000
It has been argued that social isolation is the mechanism linking neighborhood disadvantage to residents' reduced life chances. Analysis of Chicago data on inner-city African American families (each containing a mother and adolescent child) found that families in poorer neighborhoods belonged to social networks with fewer resources but,…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Family, Community Resources, Disadvantaged Environment
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. – 1993
This annotated list of 43 videotapes recommended for classroom use addresses various themes for teaching about the Holocaust, including: (1) overviews of the Holocaust; (2) life before the Holocaust; (3) propaganda; (4) racism, anti-Semitism; (5) "enemies of the state"; (6) ghettos; (7) camps; (8) genocide; (9) rescue; (10) resistance;…
Descriptors: Anti Semitism, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Media, Ethnic Bias
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