Attitudes of 4-Year Old Urban Black Children Toward Themselves and Whites Based upon Multi-Ethnic Social Studies Materials and Experiences

School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature

“…"-that is, "What particular conditions or practices are conducive to leading to positive outcomes?" Work asking this sort of question certainly began to appear before Slavin, 1978Slavin, , 1979Slavin, , 1980Slavin, , 1983aSlavin, , 1983bWeigel, Wiser, & Cook, 1975a;Yawkey, 1973;Yawkey & Blackwell, 1974). It is clearly beyond the scope of this review to try to summarize the results of all three lines of work.…”

Race, Knowledge Construction, and Education in the USA: Lessons from history

“…A number of researchers investigated the effects of curriculum interventions such as teaching units and lessons, multiethnic materials, role-playing, and simulation on children's racial attitudes between 1969 and 1980. These investigators included Litcher and Johnson (1969), Weiner and Wright (1973), and Yawkey and Blackwell (1974). In general, these studies indicate that curriculum interventions can modify student racial attitudes if certain conditions exist in the experimental situations.…”

Holding Up the Mirror: The Complexity of Seeing Your Ethnic Self in History

“…Most studies about the impact of ethnic-specific content on students of color are outdated (Johnson, 1971;Roth, 1969;Yawley & Blackwell, 1974) or focused on the positive effects that "ethnic heritage curricula" have on the student's cultural knowledge, self-concept, and self-esteem (Dupuis & Walker, 1988;Flores, 1998;Godina, 1996b;Miller, 1982). Not enough studies examine the curricular experiences when students of color feel otherwise.…”