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Publication Date: 2004
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When Does Race Matter in College Friendships? Exploring Men's Diverse and Homogeneous Friendship Groups
Antonio, Anthony Lising
Review of Higher Education, v27 n4 p553-575 Sum 2004
This qualitative study explores how male students from different racial backgrounds experience racial diversity within racially diverse or homogeneous friendship groups. Based on an inductive analysis of purposive interviews, the author found that diverse friendships among men may result from both an attitude of intentionality with regard to diversity as well as a complete dismissal of difference. Similarly, racial homogeneity among friends is not always intentional, nor does it necessarily lead to racial isolation.
Descriptors: Friendship, Males, Racial Differences, Homogeneous Grouping, Interviews, College Students, Student Diversity, Qualitative Research, Social Cognition, Behavioral Science Research, Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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