Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Negro as an ethnic minority in Kansas City, Kansas (hereafter referred to as Kansas City) by developing as thorough an ethnography on them as possible along the lines suggested by Edward Hall (1959). While employed as an American History instructor and track coach at Kansas City, Kansas Community Junior College it became apparent that in creasingly strained relations were developing between an essentially WASP majority in complete control of the power structure, and the black minority. Cases of cultural impingement seemed to result in decisions contrary to the best interests of the black minority unless the majority economically benefitted from the decision. Hopefully this paper will reveal certain causes and propose certain innovations that should ease the present dialectical clash. Al though realizing we may be running the risk of McNamarrism (short run advantage, but long run disadvantage), stop gap measures must be introduced, particularly in the Kansas City enculturative system, if the violence-repression cycle is to be avoided.
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