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Social Distinctions and Emergent Student Groups in a Desegregated School
Author(s) -
Clement Dorothy C.,
Harding Joe R.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1978.9.4.05x1858l
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , educational anthropology , sociology of education , gender studies , pedagogy , anthropology
Ethnographic studies of desegregated schools indicate a prominent pattern of informal segregation among the students. In this paper, we examine conditions which influence the emergence of these patterns in a desegregated elementary school in the South. The role of school structure in cross‐color relationships is of primary interest, especially those circumstances under which the color barrier seems to dissolve.