- African American and other minority students who enrolled in high schools with higher proportions of White students tend to work in environments with more persons from dissimilar racial backgrounds.
- White students who attended schools with lower proportion Whites found themselves in less White-dominated workplaces – a perpetuation of racial mixing for Whites as well.
- While busing as a social policy may have helped African Americans find their ways to racially mixed workplaces, it did not appear to have this salutary effect for Whites.
- Racially mixed high schools may contribute modestly to racially mixed workplaces, but their power to promote economic inequality seems limited at best.
- Students’ experiences of a school’s racial environment may not be as simple as tallying the school’s composition.
- School racial composition is unrelated to attainment of educational or occupational status, employment, or annual earnings.
- Find some support for perpetuation theory, but desegregation does not appear to be a powerful approach to promoting an integrated society.