Cross-racial friendships and social distance between racial groups on a college campus

Innovative Higher Education

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 291-305

  Odell, Patricia ^a   Korgen, Kathleen ^b   Wang, Gabe ^b  

^a Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

^b WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; Diversity; Intergroup Contact Hypothesis; Racial groups; Social distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444370901     PISSN: 07425627     EISSN: 15731758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10755-005-2863-8     Document Type: Article

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