Advocates an epidemiological view of the failure of ghetto education, and singles out the racism of urban educators as the prime causal factor. (JM)

Although the most creative subject for North American historians in the last decade has been the study of comparative slave systems and race relations, this has not always been the case. In this historical review of research on slavery and race relations, Carl Degler's and other liberal historians' work is discussed. (MC)

Racism has been a major factor in determining the role and stature of jazz and the musicians who play it. Jazz has been denied its artistic due because it emerged from Black people who have been systematically denied their social and civil rights. (Author/GC)

Folk tales, jokes, and other forms of folk culture are used to explore the love-hate relationship between Blacks and Jews and to trace the changes in this relationship. (RLV)

This essay emphasizes the impact of instructional materials on the development of the individual's self-esteem. It provides guidelines and checklists for the evaluation of sexism and racism, as well as strategies for increasing awareness in the teaching-learning process to help counteract these biases. (Author/DS)

Blacks must look to themselves for solutions to the problems of all Black people. They must direct their money back into the Black community to elevate the socioeconomic level of Blacks in the United States. (WI)

This paper explores the problem of segregation due to racial patterns in housing by examining the role of real estate agents, acting as a community of gatekeepers, in the perpetration of racial segregation. (Author/EB)

A brief profile on the circumstances of Blacks in sports is presented to demonstrate the point that, even for the "successful" Black athlete, life in sports comes to approximate a racist nightmare more than the "dream come true" it is purported to be. (Author/EB)

Blacks, especially Black historians, have a responsibility to define new standards for evaluating the past, rather than using the ideologies and criteria of Whites. (Author/MC)

Argues that "the racism inherent in white society is determined economically, but defined culturally." A revolutionary ideology "must envisage a fundamental change in the concepts of man and society contained in white culture--it must envisage a revolutionary culture." It is the role of the black intellectual, "by virtue of his historical…

This article, presented as an examination of what it means to be a son in a black family in the contemporary United States, focuses on George Jackson, specifically, the way he views himself in his books. It is argued that the situation in which Jackson found himself expressed not only his reality, but the reality of all black people. (Author/JM)

Discusses the ways in which literature reflects how the American economic system conspires to make it impossible for the black man to progress, no matter how he plays the economic game. Notes that the fathers created by black American writers have attempted to deal with their economic plight in numerous ways. (Author/JM)

It is suggested that power relationships among people have become a unifying concept of human behavior in modern society, replacing the Freudian libido, and that this concept can function as a unifying principle for integrating racism, sexism and other key relationship concerns into the human behavior curriculum sequence. (Editor/JT)

An analysis of the dynamics involved in the process of attaching labels of inferiority to black children, in terms of the function which this mechanism serves for the dominant group and the consequent deleterious psychological effects on the children. (EH)