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This article examines the significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. Jackson's candidacy represents a new use of political revivalism, an old evangelical political praxis recast in the modalities of African American Christian culture. This praxis is an aspect of American political culture that has often been overlooked because of past misunderstandings of American folk religion in general, and black Christianity in particular, as captives of an otherworldly and privatized spirituality. This article contends that black Christianity has an identifiable and coherent political style with both passive and active moods. The dominant manifestations of these moods are, respectively, political cynicism and political revivalism, which are the consequence of the correct folk perception that it is impossible to reason with the purveyors of the absurdities of racial injustice. A critical assessment of black Christianity's political symbolic capital seems appropriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the history of the African American Church based on the book "The History of Negro Church," by Carter G. Woodson. Features of the book; Analysis of the religious history of the U.S.; Problem regarding the location of manuscript and archival sources for the history of African American churches.

This article reports on a meeting on the demand and supply aspects of the market for economists in the U.S. The purpose of the meeting was to bring together a group of specialists from the academic, business, and government sectors of the economy who are actively engaged in recruiting economists or training economists for professional careers or who are vitally interested in the labor market for economists and to afford an opportunity to exchange experiences and pool information useful in helping to solve immediate problems. The difficulty which the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) was experiencing in filling a number of critical hard-to-fill jobs in overseas economic missions provided the immediate stimulus for organizing this meeting. The ICA jobs were of such a special character, calling for the services of formally trained economists and so attractive and so challenging, that one would have expected a waiting list of applicants instead of the need of an organized search for men.