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The article discusses race, class and the schools of the U.S South states during the Antebellum period. Particular focus is given to the University of North Carolina president Rev. Joseph Caldwell's campaign for railroad development and public education. North Carolina Superintendent of Common Schools Calvin Henderson Wiley's ambivalent views on racial and social inequality, including the disparity between his private convictions and his political actions, are presented. Perspectives on U.S. primary education and the inclusion of blacks within it are also presented.

A case study approach was used to examine the perspectives of three high school department chairs and their work at providing instructional supervision to the teachers in their departments: math, science, and social studies. We sought to discover the beliefs and practices of three department chairs in one high school, located in a southeastern state. From interview data, three primary findings emerged: 1) The high school department chairs experienced role conflict and ambiguity relative to providing instructional supervision; 2) The meaning of instructional supervision for the department chairs was intuitive and reflected in differentiated approaches; and 3) The constraints of instructional supervision include time and lack of emphasis. The findings indicate that the department chairs were not prepared for the practice of instructional supervision in that the participants received little instruction to enact the role of instructional supervisor, and the participants were compelled to create their own roles given the lack of direction by the principal. The participants indicated instructional supervision was not a "priority" of either system or local school administrators. The participants did evidence some important knowledge concerning instructional supervision, albeit intuitively concluded rather than formally learned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores how Ellen Douglas' novel "The Rock Cried Out" questions the way novelist William Faulkner confronts issues of race and guilt in a post-renascence, post-civil rights era U.S. South. History of the Southern Renascence literary tradition; Description of how Douglas represented her resistance to such tradition; Critical analysis of the novel.

Discusses author Bobbie Ann Mason's portrayal of the Southern States in her short stories. Author's reference to her characters' southern locale and speech; Lower-middle class white heterosexuals as principal characters of the author; Portrayal of religious hypocrites.

Focuses on author Paul Dunbar's use of the Southern States as setting for his novels. Dunbar's self-doubts as a writer about the South; Depiction of Afro-Americans; Dunbar's view of the South's local color appeal; Limitation of Dunbar's knowledge about the South.