Students' Interracial Friendships: Individual Characteristics, Structural Effects, and Racial Differences.

Hallinan, Maureen T.; Teixeira, Ruy A.

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Publication Date: 1987

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Students' Interracial Friendships: Individual Characteristics, Structural Effects, and Racial Differences.

Hallinan, Maureen T.; Teixeira, Ruy A.

American Journal of Education, v95 n4 p563-83 Aug 1987

Examines the effects of individual-, dyadic-, group-, and classroom-level variables on cross-race friendship choices. Analysis shows that a student's environment creates both constraints on and opportunities for interracial friendships. Constraints and opportunities affect both black and white students. (PS)

Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences, Friendship, Individual Characteristics, Individual Differences, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Relationship, Racial Relations

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Language: English

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