This article represents a critical reflection of a Black African American female associate professor who, while teaching a diversity course, unknowingly enabled systems of power and privilege to undermine her faculty role in the course and in the academy. The author revisits a story of this experience and its vestiges using Critical Race Theory…

The purpose of this study was to describe student ratings of teaching effectiveness for women faculty at a Southern Research Extensive University. Of the 82 women faculty in this study, 61 or 74% were White, 13 or 16% were Black, and 8 or 10% were identified as "Other" (including Asians, Latinos, and Native Americans). Both undergraduate and…

Both White faculty members and Black students bring their own cross-cultural ideology to mentoring relationships. Additionally, institutional culture and type often impact cross-cultural relationships via institutional mission, faculty expectation, and student development. Some researchers have found that race is not a factor in cross-cultural…

Ninety-two White preservice teachers from middle to upper socioeconomic backgrounds were asked to respond to questions on a five-point Likert-type scale to estimate their beliefs about awareness of culture, diverse families, cultural communications, uses of assessment, and their teaching in multicultural classrooms before and after a junior level…

There is a great need for higher education faculty to understand the complexities of teaching students of diverse backgrounds. In this article, two Black educators mentor a White faculty member yearning to understand the nuances of the culture of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) because she wants to engage her students in…

Environmental degradation is a serious problem for millions of people who are unjustly exposed to environmental conditions that threaten their everyday survival. A growing body of research shows race and class as significant predictors to exposure to environmental hazards and associated health problems. Presented are perceptions of environmental…

Much of the country has participated in the 50th anniversary celebration of "Brown v. Board of Education," a decision handed down by the Supreme Court on May 17, 1954. This historic, landmark, controversial, and revolutionary case nullified and reversed so much of the content, character, and spirit of American constitutional history,…

The results of this study support the proposition that Black and White students do not differ in their attitudes toward their training program. Both groups of student teachers felt there were no significant differences in the way their program prepared them for a teaching career. (Author/WI)

This study was conducted to determine the effects of a test containing items closely related to the black experience on the performance of white subjects and to determine whether cultural bias could be successfully built into a test that discriminates against white persons. (Author/AM)

Notes that the accounts of most students and inmates indicate that the acquisition of a racist mythology begins early in their childhood. (Author)

Reports a study to determine the presence or absence of racial preference in preschool children as indicated by their imitation of black or white filmed models, the results of which indicated that racial preference does not emerge at an early age throughout society as a whole. (Author/JM)

An Assistant Professor of Social Science at Vorhees College, South Carolina discusses what it is like to be a serious Lutheran placed in an Episcopal College, the role of history instruction in statewide school integration, and the Southern Literary Renaissance. (Author/JM)

Differences were investigated in perception of Black and White school psychologists regarding their professional role(s). Both gave a high rating to testing and assessment; Whites were less concerned than Blacks with reaching school objectives and identifying with other professionals on the Pupil Personnel Services (PPS) team. (CJM)

Introduces special issue (with same title) designed to demonstrate how Blacks and whites, as allies, used 'tongue, pen, and participation' (social, political, religious, economic, judicial) to protest conditions such as discrimination, inequality, and segregation. Also gives broad overview of Black involvement in the antislavery movement. (CMG)

Analyzes the rhetorical mode of the civil rights movement and gives some attention to the problematic convergence of white and Black progressive writers. Focuses on two recurring metaphors used to describe the condition of Blacks: invisibility and Black Power. (KH)