The Western Journal of Black Studies back issues from March 1999:
Black Student Athletes at Predominantly White National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Institutions and the Pattern of Oscillating Migrant Laborers.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract This study looks at the similarities that exist between Black student athletes and oscillating migrant laborers. The similarities they share are: both groups rotate between communities and work locations (campuses); both have different social and cultural settings; both ...
"How Ya Livin'?": Notes on Rap Music and Social Transformation(1).
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract For African Americans, the presentation of life as a multi-leveled reality has often taken form through musical expression. Music chronicles and critiques developments regarding the complexities of life within the Black community, with spirituals responding to the ...
A Study of the Contemporary Racial Attitudes of Whites and African Americans.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract Opinions, assumptions, myths and ideologically constructed perspectives on the nature of contemporary American race relations seldom rest upon and are seldom tested against empirical facts. As a partial corrective, this study explored the racial attitudes and patterns ...
The Perils of Missionary Diplomacy: The United States Peace Corps Volunteers in the Republic of Ghana.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract Based on primary and secondary sources, this paper assesses the impact of the Peace Corps program on the development of Ghana during the 1960s. In doing so this essay examines the broader motives behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and concludes by evaluating the ...
Am I a Man?: A Literature Review Engaging the Sociohistorical Dynamics of Black Manhood in the United States.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract The status and meaning of Black manhood in the United States is a subject matter that should constantly be revisited, examined, and defined because it is out of this framework that Black males construct their behavior and relationships with their wives, children, ...
The Philosophy of Upgradeable Cosmos: The Essences of "Omo" (Children) in Yoruba Ethno-Cosmology.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Abstract The concept of reality among the Yoruba has its genesis in myths, folklore, proverbs and syllogisms as manifested in "Odu IFA". This is demonstrated in the place of "OMO" (child) in the Yoruba broad cultural and ontological systems. Yoruba people are not only ...
Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals: Historical Overview and Annotated Listings.
Mar 22, 1999; ... Choral Arrangements of the African-American Spirituals: Historical Overview and Annotated Listings Author: Patricia Johnson Trice Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 235. Notwithstanding the fact that the African culture in America (and ...
Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean Author: Michael Levin Westport, CT.: Praeger, 1997. Pp. X + 415. Although the question of race has been an important sociological issue ever since the development of anthropology as a study of different ...
Hamilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas.(Review)
Mar 22, 1999; ... Hamiilton Park: A Planned Black Community in Dallas Author: William H. Wilson Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp x + 256. $39.95 (hardcover). Notes, index, illustrations, appendices. In the segregationist 1940s and 1950s, allowing ...