College Students' Attitudes on Neighborhood Integration: From the Classroom to the Community and Back Again

Authors

Robin P. Clair
Michael J. McGoun

Orginal Publication Date

1990

Journal Title

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

Volume

13

Issue

ees/vol13/iss1

First Page

25

Last Page

36

Abstract

I grew up in an all white suburb, well, almost all white. There were two black families that literally lived on the wrong side of the tracks. Two large run-down old houses sat within five feet of the rumbling trains. Sometimes my family drove past those houses in our old station wagon. On days that our drive was interrupted by a crossing train, I would watch the barefoot black children playing by the street. I never thought of our suburb as being segregated, at least not until I was in high school.

Rights

Copyright, ​©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1990