Word: negroness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second school handles senior classes-usually results in the absorption of the black schools by the white, eliminating not only the black institutions but their records of athletic and scholastic achievement. Some blacks fear studying under white teachers. "They grade differently," says Tanya Puckett, a Nashville, Tenn., senior. "Negro teachers will skip over a chapter and not hold you responsible for it. With white teachers, if you miss a test, that's it. I'm afraid I might not graduate." Whites taking over a previously black school in Thibodaux, La., promptly painted over murals that showed Booker...
Hcmd-to-Hcmd Combat. Like America's Negro spirituals, many of Russia's ballads draw their inspiration from the experience of slavery. In the fearful days of Stalin, the bitter, poignant songs of prisoners, which wafted beyond the gates of the slave labor camps, were known and hummed by millions of Soviet citizens. Although the Stalinist terror has since subsided, the memories endure. In magnitizdat, Russians sing of their struggle to maintain integrity in a society that all too often has brutalized its citizens. The stanza of one famous song begins: "Our own war is a hand...
...students scored an average of ten points lower than when the exercise was falsely described as an experiment to help plan curriculum. Watson, who is white, also found that scores typically climbed when the IQ test-identified as such-was given by his assistant, "a very black West Indian Negro...
Academic Storm. The findings by Katz and Watson undermine the notion that race and intellect can be glibly linked. They also challenge the hypothesis of Berkeley Psychologist Arthur R. Jensen that in some forms of intelligence the Negro is genetically doomed to a lower position than the white. This proposition, published last year in the Harvard Educational Review, provoked an academic storm that has yet to subside...
...race in hiring. Thus, say opponents, there is no need for the amendment. Mrs. Griffiths counters: "Of course there would be no need for it, if the Supreme Court would do what it ought to do. But in 1938, for example, the court forced the admission of a Negro to the University of Missouri Law School, then in 1959 refused the same protection to two Texas women who applied to Texas A & M College to study science...