Part of an eight article review of "Student Involvement .

This book, first in a series of six dealing with African culture and intended for secondary level students, deals with tradition and change in Africa. All of the selections in this volume were written by Africans and come from a variety of sources including autobiographies, novels, and poems. The basic purpose of the book is to capture some of the…

This publication outlines the role of the blacks in U.S. history. It is intended as an aid to elementary, middle, and junior high school teachers. The outline is organized by the following areas: The Role of the Negro in American History (1422-1790); Exploration and Colonization (1450-1763); Significant Events (1781-1796); (1796-1850);…

Presents biographical and pictorial information about 12 black scientists and inventors who were selected to serve as models for children who have little opportunity to learn of black contributions to science and technology, and as motivation for students who are uncertain about continuing their studies or about selecting professions. Much of…

This paper is an attempt to analyze and critique the major issues and methodology of Black family literature, noting trends and changes from the 1960's through 1975, emphasizing primarily issues and methodology of the 1970's. Finally, it points out implications of the current literature for future theory and research. (Author)

A project was undertaken to analyze, identify, and catalog materials in the collection of the Old Slave Mart Museum of Black Heritage of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. The collection, begun in 1937, emphasizes the contributions to American culture made by Afro-American slaves. An initial inventory of 25,000 items has been cataloged. Though…

The selections cited in this bibliography provide resources on black theater for the teacher and researcher, for those first entering the professions, and for students in search of research topics. Section one lists other relevant bibliographies, among them, an annotated guide to reference books on the black American experience, a selection of…

In the early summer of 1972 the Institute for Services to Education formed a small task force group to conduct a limited but systematic inquiry into the status of Black Studies programs at a selected number of American institutions of higher education. The major purposes of the study are: (1) the formulation of a workable definition of Black…

The author reports on the design and use of an assessment measure to determine the effect of black studies programs on student knowledge of Afro-Americans and their contributions to the American cultural and social system. A review of the literature shows that educators agree on the rationale and general objective of black studies, but that…

At the fourth annual Cal-State Hayward Conference in Rhetorical Criticism, 25 upper division and graduate students from 17 western colleges and universities presented papers on rhetorical theory, history, and criticism. Panels of faculty members from the same colleges and universities, acting as editor-critics, rated five of these papers as…

The focus of this project was to study the backgrounds of 24 upwardly mobile blacks and an equal number of underachieving blacks to determine whether collective experiences in either group contained a certain pattern which differed from the experiences of the white society. The results of the study were analyzed and used as part of the discussion…

Once the black student is introduced to the charisma of all literature through a reading of his own great writers, with whom he can identify, he can also be fired with motivation for the entire realm of literature. If black literature and the new black art are brought into the classroom, the fears and prejudices between blacks and whites will…

This book attempts to present a documented and comprehensive chronology of a recent effort to secure a black curriculum in a large, urban community; to offer a blueprint for uplifting the black man in America; and, to incite society to change. The main body of the book is devoted to laying out a black educational program and curriculum. Among the…

The course discussed in Part I: Library Science 301, is concerned with the selection and utilization of Negro resource materials. The course is geared to the mind of the librarian as reader, the technician who shares the interest in theme, plot, and character analysis of the issue-oriented college student pursuing the leads of an assignment or…

This study explores black and ethnic studies programs as a possible means of creating a pool of motivated black students to draw upon for recruitment to medical and dental schools and as an alternative to the traditional liberal arts program. Chapter I discusses the crisis in the health services, the shortage of black doctors, the lack of medical…