– Author reports a randomized controlled trial that assigns repeated intergroup contact between members of different ethnic groups. The contact results in exclusionary attitudes toward the outgroup.
– This experiment demonstrates that even very minor demographic
change causes strong exclusionary reactions.
– Exclusionary attitudes can be stimulated by even very minor, noninvasive demographic change: in this case, the introduction of only two persons. Overtly threatening behavior by newcomers is not a necessary component for the stimulation of exclusionary attitudes.
– Developed nations and politically liberal subnational units are expected to experience a politically conservative shift as international migration brings increased intergroup contact.
Current Selections
ClearCausal effect of intergroup contact on exclusionary attitudes
I Think it's Just Natural': The Spatiality of Racial Segregation at a US High School
How does race and it’s ambivalences occur through girls’ everyday and banal spatial practices at school?
Intergroup Relations in Integrated Schools: A Glimpse Inside Interdistrict Magnet Schools
How does the extent and quality of intergroup contact experienced by students help to predict their perceptions of the academic environment in the school or their attitudes towards people from other groups (racial and ethnic).
What's Past is Prologue: How Precollege Exposure to Racial Diversity Shapes the Impact of College Interracial Interactions
Examines the extent to which students’ precollege exposure to racial/ ethnic diversity moderates the relationships between college interracial interactions and student outcomes (such as (college satisfaction, emotional well-being, and race-related
Measuring School Racial Composition and Student Outcomes in a Multiracial Society
What are the benefits of school desegregation and diversity measured by a nonacademic outcome with social implications (comfort working).
Getting to the What, How, and Why of Diversity on Campus
What kinds of diversity initiatives and cross-racial interactions foster learning among diverse students?
Fifty Years after Brown: New Evidence of the Impact of School Racial Composition on Student Outcomes
Expand the discussion of the impact of desegregation beyond the traditional test measures & including racial groups that have been largely ignored.
Educational Benefits of Racially and Ethnically Diverse School
Summarizes research on school desegregation and the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in K-12 schooling.
When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations: The Relationship Between Social Psychology and Social Policy
Analyze studies that focus on when and how does school desegregation improve intergroup relations?
The Effect of Childhood Interracial Contact on Adult Antiblack Prejudice
Does desegregation have any measureable effect on racial prejudice? Does childhood interracial contact have any lasting effect on adult prejudice?
School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature
Assess the current state of literature on desegregation and intergroup relations
Cross-Group Contact Opportunities: Impact on Interpersonal Relationships in Desegregated Middle Schools
Examines the effects of school organizational structure on students’ interracial and cross-sex communication patterns
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
School Practices that Improve Race Relations
Which school practices improve racial relations in desegregated schools?