Reports an investigation of racial and cultural identification and preferences among Indian children in Canada, in which 36 Indian children and 35 white children from Ontario, ranging in age from three to seven, were given the "doll" test developed by Kenneth Clark. (Author/JM)

Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: gender, religion, family, and peer. For both males and females in Latin and Anglo cultures, gender emerged as the most prominent identity. Social and cultural differences between the two cultures were considered as explanations for variations in adolescent identity…

Argues that the traditional black church appears latently able and well-placed to complement the effort of the black family to prepare its young children to be black and proud in a white-dominated society. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether recent social changes and consequent malintegration with regard to sex roles have created stressful repercussions for men as well as for women; nearly one third of the men interviewed experienced some anxiety over their perceived failure to live up to the norm of masculine intellectual…

A multidimensional scaling procedure was used to explore the role of cultural background, language and geographic regions in the process of ethnic identity. (JB)

Aruges that the ethnic factor has always been significant in the social and political life of the United States, and that only the consciousness of ethnicity has become increasingly pervasive and influential. (JM)

Paper based on part of author's doctoral dissertation for University of Michigan. Describes an experiment demonstrating increased racial pride and improved self concept in Black fifth graders receiving a course in Black studies. (JM)

Presidential address given at the 59th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), November 1969 in Washington, D.C. (DS)

Fifty-eight adolescents with behavior problems were contrasted with normal controls with the Self-Social Symbols Tasks. The maladjusted group was higher in egocentricity, lower in esteem, social interest, individuation, and on measures of identification. (Author)

Black student from middle class family recounts his experiences before and after attending a community high school. (RJ)

This very extensive review covers such areas as parental attitudes and behavior, sex differences in regard to parental influence, parental identification, father absence and effects of divorce or separation, emotional problems, delinquency, health, generational differences and international research. (CJ)