In this study on interracial contact and attitudes of black and white students, questionnaires were administered to students, predominantly black, in predominantly white high schools in Kansas City, Missouri, and surrounding areas. The responses of the 529 black students indicated that contact with whites and liking for whites are positively…

Group members tend to like other members of their own group more than members of groups to which they do not belong. This paper focuses on some of the initial determinants of this own-group preference and on the isolation of factors which increase or decrease it. The major finding appears to be that the mere anticipation of cooperation or…

All participants were selected on the basis of their leadership qualities, responsible and identifiable concern with the process of school desegregation, and their activities specifically concentrated in the Richmond Unified School District. Of the sixty-nine adult participants, 37 were teachers and 11 were community persons representing both…

The older tradition of native American literature is discussed in terms of the systems of values which we bring to it, as well as those embedded in it. The analysis leads to a statement of some of the strengths of recent native American literature, which carries from the past some of the value judgments that have always kept the group or the tribe…

Marriage, baptism, membership, and church committee records are used in this paper to trace the form and evolution of the social boundaries which Detroit's white Anglo-American Protestants created for themselves at various levels of social contact. Together, these records provide an indication of small group associational patterns in an urban…

Despite efforts of West Point to integrate female cadets with males, male cadets' attitudes toward women did not become more favorable during the first year of coeducation. Estimates suggest that it may be a long time before women are accepted fully into academy life. (Author/WI)

The position is developed that much of interaction dynamics between blacks and liberal whites is situationally determined. Such interaction is characterized by strong situationally specific cues, both internal (e.g., anger, fear, guilt) and external (e.g., color of other). (Author/AM)

The article determines the linguistic affiliation of the Nakipa and Yakakwal peoples, who became extinct before the turn of the century, as Paopai and Kiliwa, respectively. The article uses ethnohistoric and historic sources to explain the theory. (Author/NCR)

Discusses some of the things that can be done to generate more intercultural understanding within the U.S. and between Americans and people of the non-Western world. (Author/AM)

Presents a theoretical foundation for the use of structured exercises in group counseling with a discussion of implications for practice. (Author)

Presented and supported is the thesis that both collective and individual mobility--either within or in spite of various hierarchies of ethnic stratification--are much more common and more significant than has been recognized. (Author/AM)

The comparison of the two sub-nations, the language community of the Flemings and the racial group of American negroes suggest a number of hypothesis concerning the changes that occur as upward mobility becomes easier for members of a subordinate ethnic group. (Author/AM)

The past research indicates no strong relationship between the minority individual's ingroup identification and his outgroup attitude, nor does it support the contention that strong ingroup identification leads to a positive or negative outgroup orientation. (Author)

These studies with sixth and fourth graders compared effects of different learning conditions on student relationships. Results indicated that intergroup cooperation promoted more positive cross-sex and cross-ethnic relationships than did intergroup competition. Relationships formed within cooperative learning situations did generalize into…

In a study of the auto- and heterostereotypes of Aboriginal and Anglo-Australian adolescents, students responded to schedules that included attributes arranged on bipolar scales. Anglo-Australian students' stereotypes of Aboriginals were unfavorable, uniform, and extremely negative, whereas Aboriginal Australians expressed favorable and positive…