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ERIC Number: EJ360200
Record Type: CIJE
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
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Cross Race Interaction; Friendship Formation