The dynamic of racial and ethnic identities in college settings reveals complex interactions influenced by shared experiences and societal structures. Students from diverse racial backgrounds often form close-knit groups, especially minorities who bond over common cultural experiences and as a response to racial tensions with white students.
1968 College Student Debate. Black Students Walk Out
Racial Push: Bonding together as a response to racial discrimination and harrasment
Ethnicity In College
White students cultural awareness of other minorities
Blacks tend to have more
knowledge about Whites than vice versa
white Americans especially students have had little contact to black culture
Conclusion: Non white Students in college stick together as they bond over shared cultural experiences and as a response of racial tension between white students
Symbolic vs Oppositional
Oppositional : used to describe the racial disparities in education achievement usually between black and white students
Symbolic: ethnic identity that is only relevant on specific occasion, and does not significantly impact everyday life (ex: St. Patrick’s Day parade)
ex: White Students
Bringing students together from different racial groups together to live in college
Racial tension between white students and minorities is likely to rise
students from diverse racial groups have the opportunity to form friendships with eachother
How does the integration of races in colleges affected relationship between minorities of similar racial groups
why do racial groups have the positive attraction of being around other minority student (ex: Black students)
Ethnic pull of wanting to be together to share cultural experiences