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This 3 page paper is a critical assessment of the article "African American University Students" Revisiting African American University Students' Interpersonal Style "Switching" on Predominantly White Campuses. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Robbie J. Steward, and Douglas Neil "revisit" a study that was done in 1990. The purpose of the earlier study, and thus also the one described in the article, was
to find out if African American students exhibited different interpersonal behaviors when they were with all black students than when they were with whites. That is, did the African American
students change their behavior depending on whether they were with others of the same race? In the earlier study, "Steward, Jackson, & Jackson (1990) found support for the combined
hypothesis that interpersonal style switching among the most academically prepared minorities does occur. Findings from this study of the most successful African American students on a large predominantly White campus
indicated that students behaved differently when in an all White campus environment than when in an all Black campus environment" (Collins, Steward and Neil, p. 80). Collins and the others
are thus working from the hypothesis that their study will also find that Black students behave differently when they are with other Blacks than they do with Whites. Counterintuitively and
somewhat surprisingly, this does not appear to be the case: "... no significant differences were found between participants interpersonal style based on the racial composition of the on-campus setting" (Collins,
Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in behavior regardless of the setting" (Collins, Steward and Neil, p. 88).
Since this is not the result they expected, it is now up to Collins and her colleagues to explain why they could not replicate the earlier work. Several things come
to mind, including the fact that it may be the earlier study that is flawed, but Collins doesnt spend any time with that idea. Instead, she considers other factors, including
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