Is the gray mare only a workhorse?

A study by the Women's Commission at the University of Wisconsin pointed out that only 3 percent of the tenured faculty of the college of education were female.“     

The socio-conditions of the white practitioner: New perspectives

The writer is a white educator in a graduate school of social work. Her prior clinical work included ego psychological theory building and demonstration research with severely emotionally disturbed children and their families. This paper presents her views of the institutionalized character of racism, myths about whiteness and knowledge which has bearing on the resolution of the human relationship arrangements which underlie the white clinician's dilemma.—Ed.     

Light-aversion in the white rat

The Psychological Record -     

Why good guys wear white

Affect is a somewhat abstract concept that is frequently linked to physical metaphor. For example, good is often depicted as light (rather than dark), up (rather than down), and moving forward (rather than backward). The purpose of our studies was to examine whether the association between stimulus brightness and affect is optional or obligatory. In a series of three studies, participants categorized words as negative or positive. The valence of the words and the brightness of the letters were varied orthogonally. In Studies 1, 2, and 3, we found that categorization was inhibited when there was a mismatch between stimulus brightness (e.g., light) and word valence (e.g., negative). Studies 4 and 5 reveal boundary conditions for the effect. The studies suggest that, when making evaluations, people automatically assume that bright objects are good, whereas dark objects are bad.     

Archaic ontology and white shamanism

John D. Loftin, Religion and Hopi Life in the Twentieth Century, (Religion in North America), Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1991. xxi, 168 pp., $19.95. ISBN 0 253 33517 5.

Felicitas D. Goodman, Where the Spirits Ride the Wind. Trance Journeys and Other Ecstatic Experiences, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1990. xii, 242 pp., ISBN 0 253 20566 2.