Intergroup Contact, Social Context and Racial Ecology in South Africa

Improving Intergroup Relations: Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-194

  Finchilescu, Gillian ^a   Tredoux, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Contact and racial ecology in South Africa; Ecology of interracial contact; Intergroup contact the Apartheid years; Interracial friendship; Observational studies of interracial contact; Post Apartheid years; Race segregation and discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889381391     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303117.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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