Seeks to understand how integration within the same school may be experienced differently by males and females, as this may potentially lead to gender variation in how students approach future integrated situations
Current Selections
ClearThe Educational Benefit of Sustaining Cross-Racial Interaction Among Undergraduates
Examine the student -and institution- level effects of one key form of diversity – cross-racial interaction.
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
Examines student friendship patterns across racial/ethnic groups in multiracial schools
Stereotypic Explanatory Bias: Implicit Stereotyping as a Predictor of Discrimination
Whether a measure of implicit stereotyping is predictive of behavior towards a partner in an interracial interaction.
Diversity and Educational Quality
Why benefits of diversity are part of educational quality?
Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America
Tests whether school organization affects friendship segregation in a national sample of adolescents friendship networks.
When Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties
Desegregation is sometimes different from and inconsistent with maximizing interracial contact.
Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships
Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness
Some of My Best Friends are Black: Interracial Friendship and Whites' Racial Attitudes
Examines the tenets and assumptions of contact theory.
Effects of Cooperative Learning Teams on Student Achievement and Race Relations: Treatment by Race Interactions
Investigation of race by treatment interactions on student achievement and race relations.
Effects of Biracial Learning Teams on Cross-Racial Friendships
Studies the effects of biracial learning teams on cross-race friendship in desegregated junior high schools