ABSTRACT
Previous visits to The Blacklands of Gerontology (Jackson, 1967; 1971a) have focused largely upon a presentation and critique of selected literature pertinent to aging and aged blacks, emphasizing especially the paucity and inconclusive findings of much of the available data, emergent issues arising therefrom (such as those of relationships between and among race, aging, religion, family and kinship, and health, as well as methodological ones principally concerned with inadequate conceptualizations and collection and interpretation of the data), the usually low socioeconomic statuses of black aged, and critical research and social policy needs. This third visit falls within the same genre, since it provides an additional bibliographic collection and commentary. It also permits a limited assessment of trends in research and factors affecting research on black aged, 1950–1971.
