Desegregation and Racial Tolerance in Academia

Bibliographic Data

ID4048652
AuthorsWilliam A Sampson (corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume55
Issue2
Pages171
Publication date1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Negro Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-2984 • E-ISSN: 2167-6437
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2294880
OpenAlexW2079719524
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Almost forty years ago, Myrdall argued that segregation was the key factor in maintaining the vicious cycle of discrimination, inferiority, and racial prejudice. If Myrdal was correct, desegregation should open the way for equal opportunity and accomplishment, and a reduction and eventual elimination of prejudice on the part of both blacks and whites. Is this in fact the usual outcome? Does interracial contact lead to reduced prejudice? This paper presents a tentative answer to these questions by examining results from a recent survey of college students on race relations items, comparing blacks' and whites' responses both before and after one year at a desegregated university. In one setting, desegregation may result in biracial friendships and a lessening of stereotyping; in another, racial cleavages may split blacks and whites even more decisively. We set out to examine the relationships among race and racial attitudes and expectations, social class and racial attitudes and expectations, and any changes in these relationships and/or in the attitudes or expectations over time in one desegregated setting-an urban college campus. Scott,2 citing seven studies on racial attitudes conducted over the past twenty-five years, stresses the positive argument, saying that negative responses to race relations questions have decreased over time. In essence, this echoes the popular view that Americans are becoming more tolerant of personal differences. But St. John,3 in her review of twenty-three desegregation studies focusing on

Desegregation · Ethnic group · Political science · Racial differences · Racial integration · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub