The districting policies of and the past resistance to integration shown by the Los Angeles School Board cast doubts on decentralization as the alternative to integration of that city's schools. (DM)

Presents a rationale for conceptualizing the black personality with a focus on the black male. (DM)

An examination of geography textbooks and scholarly journals reveals that with few exceptions they give inadequate treatment of Black Americans. Omission of any mention of blacks is characteristic. Where Blacks are mentioned, problems are slighted. (NH)

Racism is the creed of the loser in the American egalitarian system. Until we develop a new set of values, the Negro will continue to be made the scapegoat by all those who think themselves outsiders. (Author)

To combat student unrest, the academic community must facilitate the establishment of trust and confidence between youth and nonyouth. (Author/IR)

Statement presented to President Nixon by a delegation of fifteen presidents of predominantly Negro colleges on May 20, 1970. (JM)

Black colleges serve psychological and sociological functions that cannot be duplicated by predominantly White institutions. One of the most important functions of Black colleges is to offer a human support system to meet all of the needs of Black students. (Author/MC)

There is a negative correlation between the proportionate number of Blacks in a community and the degree to which that community allows Black participation in its affairs. Regional political, social, and economic histories affect the current relative status of Blacks in each region. (Author/MC)

A critique of the newly published Sesame Street Library, a set of 15 children's books. Maintains that the content of the books is sexist, racist and complicates rather than simplifies the pedagogical task. A further criticism is that the Library stoops to commercialism in an effort to further sales. (CM)

The past decade featured contributions by Indian novelists, short story writers, and poets that have the potential of becoming true national Indian literature. Article comments on some of the more prominent works by Indian writers in the 1970s. (DS)

Notes that the greatest threat that Americans face is not historical racism as we have been accustomed to think, but rather the dominance of economic power over political democracy. (Author)

Argues that the conscience that the colonialists brought into the period of slavery required the assumption that the slave learner was somehow different from other learners. This is a concept that still has great currency in education. Much of the struggle for freedom now is a struggle to overcome this concept. (Author/JM)