Background/Context: There is much literature that examines how the desegregation literature had implications for majority teachers and its impact on students of color. However, little has been written about the experiences of teachers of color working in suburban desegregated majority schools. Focus of Study: This article examines how intergroup…

Examined how intergroup differences within suburban schools affected African American teachers' experiences. Organizational culture strongly influenced how whites treated their minority counterparts. Because the majority established norms, minorities were expected to comply with uniform sets of rules and regulations. Intergroup conflict arose…

Examined how African American principals perceived intergroup conflict, acknowledging their leadership concerns in working with European American participants in desegregated suburban schools. Interview data indicated that these leaders were cultural integrators and consensus builders who had acquired an understanding of diversity and had…

Examines the responses of principals to intergroup conflict that occurred as a result of cultural incongruities between teachers of color and their European American counterparts in desegregated suburban schools. Employs intergroup theory to explicitly define and measure how school leaders managed group conflict in their schools. (Contains 24…

Intensive open-ended interviews examined professional experiences of seven male and seven female African American teachers who were recruited into suburban schools to satisfy school desegregation mandates. Findings focus on respondents' heightened awareness of group boundaries in the work environment, racial differences in teachers' instructional…

Leadership and diversity are invariably connected, as US schools are under pressure to educate an increasingly diverse population. Creating an inclusive school requires school leaders to respond to any intergroup conflict that may occur among an ethnically-diverse group of schools' participants. The study on which this article is based examined…