This study uses a year of ethnographic fieldwork, over 50 informal ethnographic interviews in a racially diverse neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI, and formal interviews with 30 neighborhood residents, workers, and business owners, to examine how neighborhood residential diversity affects cross-racial interactions there. The study found that, despite…

In this essay, application of the equal-status contact hypothesis to the policy of integrated housing is reassessed by reviewing the findings from two studies of interracial public housing. Assessment of the relative level of interracial intimacy in the integrated projects is hindered by measures lacking in clarity and comprehensiveness, but the…

Research on a random sample of white parents of school age children, interviewed in 1973, throughout 8 desegregated school districts in Florida, revealed that while school desegregation has produced a considerable amount of verbal protest, it has resulted in far less outright rejection. The impact of social class, racial attitudes, and busing on…

Whites on winning basketball teams with relatively equal scoring by blacks and whites have more favorable racial attitudes than blacks on winning teams and whites on losing teams. (DE)

A survey of the attitudes of 90 black high school students toward their school and its white counterpart points toward the significance of prior knowledge of black student experiences at the white high school as an explanatory variable for the failure of blacks, in substantial numbers, to choose to attend formerly all-white schools in…

Reviews the empirical studies dealing with school desegregation and racial cleavage which have appeared since the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Focuses on patterns and consequences of interracial association, and attitude change relevant to racial cleavage. (DM)

Concludes that school desegregation has such an incredible ideological momentum that objective and rational assessment of its true effects often seems unattainable. Until there is solid evidence that educational and social benefits of desegregation outweigh its harmful effects, it should not be imposed upon an unwilling public. (Author/JM)

All six institutions under study were found to have or to previously have had integrated nonblack chapters; black fraternities had only segregated chapters. Black enrollments were proportionately much smaller than nonblack enrollments, however. (Author)

Peer relations in 36 interracial sixth-grade classrooms are examined. Methods of analysis include examination of variance, multiple regression, and case studies. Both dependent and independent variables are used, as are variables particular to the interracial situation, such as racial ratios, desegregation history, and busing. The authors conclude…

The fourth in a series of reports on racial attitudes shows that U.S. whites have increased their support of integration at a steady pace, with a striking period of more rapid change between 1970 and 1972. (Author/MA)

The failure of the Rochester School Board in March 1967 to adopt a comprehensive program of school desegregation surprised many observers. On February 1, 1967, Superintendent Goldberg broadcast four desegregation plans to the public, and on March 16, 1967 the school board voted three to two against all four desegregation plans and adopted instead…

THIS SELECTIVE ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 242 ITEMS ON THE EFFECTS OF RACIAL SEGREGATION, DESEGREGATION, AND INTEGRATION ON SCHOOL CHILDREN. THE BASES USED FOR SELECTION OF THE ITEMS WERE (1) EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, (2) POST-1954 AND ESPECIALLY POST-1960 STUDIES, (3) THE NORTH AND DEFACTO SEGREGATION, (4) RESEARCH WITH NEGRO SUBJECTS, AND (5)…

This summary report of a study of school integration (defined here as the extent to which students of different racial and ethnic backgrounds know and get along with each other) indicates that school integration is advanced by the following practices: social mixing, racial fairness, staff support for integration, security, staff modeling, and…

This is a summary and synthesis of five ethnographic studies of desegregated schools over a period of about two years. It seeks to determine whether the desegregation process in the public schools has resulted in integration. (Desegregation and integration are seen as distinct phenomena, with integration defined as the attaining of, and respect…