One hundred first-year women and 100 senior women attending a private liberal arts college in Minnesota completed a questionnaire about their class background and current class identity, and the extent to which they thought class had an affect on their lives. Information was also obtained about their scholarships and financial aid. While the…

This paper investigates how a group of sixth grade girls thought about their own agency at a transitional period in their lives, when reading books with strong, independent, realistic female characters. The girls vicariously explored agency as they compared their lives and possibilities with those of novel characteristics. Each of the four novels…

Probably no other concept comes closer to encompassing the core of personality psychology than the concept of the self. This teaching activity provides instructors with a self-contained teaching module--including lecture material, an in-class activity, suggestions for in-class discussion, and supporting references--on the topic of identity…

A significant difference in counselor preferences was found between self-designated black and Afro-American groups and colored and Negro groups. These findings pointed to the conclusion that when assessing attitudes of black people, investigators and counselors should consider the individual's "racial consciousness" as manifested by his racial…

Argues that the core of the Indians' problem is the inability of their community to achieve a sense of control over its own destiny, and explores ways in which the Indians can organize to gain the necessary internal cohesion, resources, and capabilities in order to create a satisfactory position within American society. (JM)

Reports the results of a questionnaire study concerning the question of black identity which attempted to determine just how deeply it penetrated into the being of the black teenager who exhibits outward evidences of it in his clothing and hairstyles; respondents were black high school students and college undergraduates. (Author/JM)

Reports two studies investigating first whether a structured intervention program can help reduce racial prejudice of both black and white children, and second the strength and direction, if any, of the relationship between black identification, outgroup attitudes and willingness to associate with outgroup members. (Author/JM)

The liberation of oppressed people involves a kind of subjective or psychological liberation as well as an objective (political, economic, and social) one. It is time to define what such subjective liberation involves, how it can be achieved, and its relationship to objective liberation and other objective social conditions. (RJ)

A brief look at the culture of Israel with emphasis on the role of its educational structures. The three elements, identity, diversity, and commitment, reflected in the Israel school curriculum, are used to explain the country's core of inner security and strength.'' (ST)

Reviews and analyzes a book containing a dialogue between James Brown and Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race.'' (JM)

Distinctive theoretical features characterizing research in the area of the self-concept are related to investigations into the nature of the black self-concept; a modification of Mead's symbolic interactional approaches is developed; the epistemologic grounding of the research reviewed makes it inapplicable to blacks. (Author/JM)

Demarcates a number of research areas for black behavioral science scholars in regard to preventive as well as rehabilitative mental health concerns (DM)

A good black university must take serious note of not only its responsibilities as a Western institution, but also those it shares with universities of the Third World. (DM)