This study collected data on the attitudes that white students have toward blacks and the relation between interracial contact and racial attitudes. A questionnaire was administered to students attending six predominantly white high schools in suburban and suburban-type school districts in Jackson County, Missouri. One hundred questionnaires were…

Describes the development of the Prejudice Perception Assessment Scale, a brief scale composed of five vignettes aimed at assessing the extent to which participants perceive prejudice as the cause of negative outcomes in ambiguous situations. Results from studies with 66 and 109 African Americans distinguish stigma vulnerability from mistrust of…

This study sought to assess the effectiveness of the Carnegie Cross-Cultural Experience Program. The program brought white students from the University of Florida to study at the predominantly black Florida A & M University. The program came about because it was felt that as an increasing number of black people enter professional fields or are…

This questionnaire survey of the interracial attitudes of a representative sample of 638 black youths in Washington, D. C. in 1968 replicates a similar one done in 1966, and compares 1968 patterns with 1966 patterns. In addition it concerns itself with identification, political views, vocational aspirations and expectations. The basic findings are…

This paper on student-teacher relationships is part of a study of black students at white colleges. The study was conducted at four predominantly white colleges in upstate New York during the 1969-70 school year and was financed by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The main purpose of the study was to report the black experience at white…

This study was conducted to determine the skin color preference and self-concept development of 105 black inner city kindergarten, first, and second grade children. Overall results show that self-concept development and correct skin color selection increased from grade level to grade level because of maturation and positive frame of reference.…

THREE FIFTH-GRADE CLASSES OF ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED NEGRO CHILDREN, EQUATED ON INTELLIGENCE AND READING ACHIEVEMENT, PARTICIPATED IN A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF VARYING AMOUNTS AND TYPES OF RACIAL CUEING ON AFFECTIVE SETS TOWARD THE PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST IN A CLOZE TYPE READING SELECTION. ALL THREE CLASSES READ THE SELECTION, BUT CLASS A WAS…

A quasi-disguised nonverbal attitude measure for young children was used to measure racial awareness and preference. Subjects were 429 first and third grade white and Negro public school children. Varied class activities were presented in 18 pen and ink sketches with different racial combination of teachers and children. These sketches were…

In this study the extent to which variation in academic success is related to variation in adolescent identification with "student role" is examined. Particular attention is paid to how this relationship varies among adolescents of different races, social background levels, and school racial experiences. The data were collected from a 1966 survey…

This study analyzes data collected in the summer of 1970. Fifty-seven groups, composed of two white and two black junior high school boys, were filmed as they participated in a cooperative task. Observers scored task-related interaction and socio-emotional behavior from video tapes of each group. Attitudes and perceptions of one another and of the…