A Comparison of the Reading Interests of Negro and White College Students

Investigations to date have shown pretty clearly that group non-fiction reading interests are affected most by three major factors-sex, amount of schooling, and occupation; and somewhat less by three minor factorsgeographical environment, age, and amount of time spent in reading.1 The present study undertakes to examine the comparative effect of race in determining what subjects a group wants to read about. To accomplish this, two groups of college students were studied, one white and the other colored. The groups selected for study comprised students from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, and from the University of Chicago. Fisk University includes a liberal arts college for the education of Negro men and women. Its students come from nearly every section of the country, although the greater number are residents of Southern states, and its faculty is biracial. Fisk University was the first Negro institution of higher education to receive Class A rating from the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, indicating that its scholarship was approximately on a par with that found in white colleges generally. Slightly more than half of the student body of Fisk University, comprising 98 men and 148 women, rang

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