Analyzes the precollege backgrounds and post college careers of some of the 100 Blacks who attended Oberlin College before the Civil War. Discusses the financial support of these students from the college, abolitionists, the Black Church, and their families. (AOS)

Research among Black adolescent boys found that: (1) those whose fathers were present in the home had higher and more positive self-concepts than those whose fathers were absent; and (2) self-concept and grade point average were significantly related for the father-present group. (Author/MJL)

Nigerian secondary school students considered engineering, medicine, and university teaching to be highly prestigious occupations. Males had higher occupational aspirations than females, and urban adolescents chose higher careers than rural adolescents. (Author/MJL)

Compared Black and White teachers' attributions of positive and negative characteristics to Black and White students. Found that girls, especially White girls, were perceived more positively than boys, and that both Black and White teachers perceive Black students more negatively than they perceive White students. (Author/MJL)

Despite Federal efforts to increase minority participation in university level research and development (R & D), there is a disproportionate underrepresentation of minority men as trainees. Reasons seem to lie in R & D recruitment strategies and practices. (Author/GC)

Two hundred Black and White male college students were questioned to determine personality needs, perception of a wife's financial contribution, and need to play a masculine role in relation to their preferences for a traditional or nontraditional future wife. Data were analyzed according to race and other mediating variables. (GC)

In order to identify the relationships between the attitudes and perceptions of peer pressure and the academic achievement of academically able male adolescents, this study compares the school attitudes of high achieving and low achieving Black male youth. (EF)

Critiques the ways problems confronting black males are framed and acted on, focusing on the role of race and gender in the development of interventions. Drawing on research at an urban California high school, the article presents recommendations for programs aimed at the needs of black males that avoid marginalizing those targeted. (SLD)

Data from a study that investigated gender differences in the perceptions of 413 African American women and men college faculty and administrators indicate that significant differences by gender are found with respect to promotion, tenure, institutionalized climate, and professional life. Women are generally less satisfied with their professional…

Analysis of data from 4,692 school districts from the 1992 census of the Office for Civil Rights finds that African American boys are subjected to physical discipline in school at excessive rates, and that a black child is more than three times as likely to be hit by a teacher. (SLD)

Introduces a theme issue that examines the crises facing urban black males in the juvenile justice system, concentrating on research on the new penology and African American males, historical and contemporary perspectives to crime and punishment, and crime and socially structured opportunity. Notes the importance of breaking the cycle of poverty,…

Examines juvenile correctional facilities, populations served, and educational programs offered. Statistics on social indicators for young African American males, who are overrepresented in the juvenile correctional system, create a profile of incarcerated youth. Examines the role of special education programs in placing young African American…