Online via UI Library electronic subscription, Authors analyzed why some social movement organizations were more successful than others in gaining media attention. They drew upon organizational survey data from a representative sample of 187 local environmental organizations in North Carolina with complete news coverage of those organizations in 11 major daily newspapers in the state during the two years following the survey.
"Within the Caribbean region, racial identity forms a multicategory continuum from white to black, whereas in the United States it is a dichotomy of black versus white. Many Caribbean Hispanics, therefore, reject a strict racial dichotomy and select some category intermediate between black and white when asked to identify themselves racially on the U. S. census." (Author abstract)
INTERPAKS, Analyzes data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Finds little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking. Considers the possibility that the status-trial relationships varied systematically across communities, with mixed results. While there were lower zero-order correlations between status and trial for cultivators in high resource, low inequality communities, analysis of interactions between community characteristics and individual level measures was not particularly informative.
"The description of Negro family life in Bahia, Brazil, as given by E. F. Frazier is reviewed. The disintegration of African patterns held to have resulted from white contact, when analyzed in terms of aboriginal tribal family organization, particularly with reference to underlying sanctions, is found to exist to a very slight degree. The Afro-Bahian family manifests traits particular to it, but these are the results of accommodation to an acculturative situation, and are not a sign of demoralization." --The Author
Looks at a number of ethnic neighborhoods including Afro Caribbean and Dominican communities. The predominant post-1965 immigrant groups have established distinctive settlement areas in many American cities and suburbs
