Finding someone like me : the strategic pursuit of co-ethnic peers on a college campus
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation demonstrates the agentic processes involved in forming ethnic-minority friendships on predominantly White campuses. Through the quantitative survey data (paper A), I demonstrate that students of varying ethnicities (Asian/Asian-American, Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latino, Native American/Pacific Islander, and White/Caucasian) engage in fewer cross-race friendships than expected according to the baseline demographics of the university. Through the interviews (papers 2 and 3), I show how ethnic-minority students seek out their ethnically-similar peers and determine if they have a rightful claim to certain ethnic identities. Together, these three papers highlight the role of individual agency in the process of friendship formation while in the pursuit of ethnic homophily on a predominantly White campus.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gilkes, Tamara Shawn |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Antonio, Anthony Lising, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Antonio, Anthony Lising, 1966- |
| Thesis advisor | Bettinger, Eric |
| Thesis advisor | Carter, Prudence L |
| Thesis advisor | McFarland, Daniel |
| Degree committee member | Bettinger, Eric |
| Degree committee member | Carter, Prudence L |
| Degree committee member | McFarland, Daniel |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tamara Gilkes. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Tamara Shawn Gilkes
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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