Discusses a number of studies related to white attitudes and black images, noting that there appears to be a definite impact on transracial communication--e.g. on the amount of understanding that persons from different racial backgrounds can achieve in a situation of verbal interaction--of the changing image of black Americans. (Author/JM)

Reports a case study at Forest Park Community College, St. Louis, Missouri, which demonstrated some important shifts in attitudes of blacks towards themselves: changes in the status hierarchy based on color gradations of lightness were demonstrated, as were relations of skin color to self-ratings of personal "competence." (Author/JM)

The performance of black youths in educational and psychological testing situations cannot be assessed adequately without consideration of their particular attitudes, perceptions, and behavioral patterns. The authors discuss Blacks' attitudes toward whites, systems of time allocations, expressions of identity, attitudes toward learning,…

Sixty children with mean age 5.10 years were studied. Each member of two groups of 20 nonconservers was given a different kind of verbal rule instruction that was focused on the conservation of discontinuous and continuous quantity. (Editor)

There are certain threats to the Jew's ethnicity, and factors in his ecological setting motivate his anxiety. (DM)

Presents a conceptualization of selected views and opinions on some critical factors--such as Black consciousness, quality education, racial integration, socio-economic influences on learning, and others--which have a direct and major influence on the conduct of public education for Black students. (Author/JM)

These results lend additional support to the theorized importance of parental identification in the early development of behavior disorders. (Author)

A review of commercial television series which suggests that commercial television promotes the negative black stereotypes that have hindered development of a functional black identity. (JM)

Career education is not a panacea, the authors admit, but in it they see a step toward a solution to many of the problems and difficulties in today's society and schools. (Editor)

The article points up the need for all counselors from whatever cultural background to work hard to understand the cultural differences present in their client groups, accepting these differences as being in no way inferior merely because they represent minority group persons. (CJ)

Caution is necessary in contemplating placement of adolescent girls with sex role identity problems: postplacement visiting between daughter and mother is important. (Editor)

Results indicated that at all age levels Ss held a predominantly favorable view of the mesomorph, a markedly unfavorable view of the endomorph, and a somewhat less negative but still unfavorable view of the ectomorph. (Authors)

Race awareness in chinese children in Hong Kong was compared with race awareness in American caucasian and Negro children. Results support the generalization that, "...children of subordinate races tend to prefer and identify with members of dominant races, while children of dominant races tend to prefer and identify with members of their own…