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12/95/
ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED344965 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Democracy's Next Generation II: A Study of American
Youth on Race.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1992
NOTE: 172 p.; An abridged version, containing four sections
(73 pages) of the computer report, is also available.
AVAILABILITY: People For the American Way, Suite 400, 2000
M
St., NW, Washington, DC 20036 ($11.95).
ABSTRACT: This report presents the results of a national
study of American youth on relations between the races,
particularly black-white relations. The study surveyed
youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years in three parts:
(1) a national telephone survey of 1,170 young people; (2)
face-to face, in-depth interviews with 78 additional young
people nationwide; and (3) two focus groups with young
whites--one group college-educated, the other not--in
Raleigh, North Caorlina. The publication begins with a
group portrait derived from the study of the children of
the Civil Rights Era including a discussion of the racial
divisions, hopeful trends among youth on race, and a vision
of a new moral consensus on race. The second major part
presents the study and its findings. After an introduction
and executive summary, key findings are analyzed in the
following eight sections: (1) social perspectives; (2)
social values; (3) views of race relations in America; (4)
race relations and personal interaction; (5) reactions to
policy approaches; (6) voices of minority America; (7)
voices of the white majority; and (8) the challenge of
leadership in the 1990s. Appendices contain the following:
a discussion of methodology, a copy of the filled-in
questionnaire, focus group materials, and the questionnaire
and an overview of the participants from the one-on-one
interviews. Extensive tables and figures illustrate the
report. (JB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescents-; Affirmative-Action; Hispanic
Americans; Minority-Groups; National-Surveys; Political
Attitudes; Racial-Attitudes; Racial-Bias; Racial
Discrimination; Young-Adults
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Black-Youth; *Futures-of-Society; *Racial
Relations; *Student-Attitudes; *Whites-; *Youth-
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