2004/02/11 by Patricia Gurin, Biren A. Nagda, Gretchen E. Lopez · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Critical Race Theory in Education #Higher Education Research Studies #Communication in Education and Healthcare
paper · doi:10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00097.x
openalex publication_date 2004/02/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/03
The social science statement in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) stressed that desegregation would benefit both African American and White children. Eventually, it was recognized that integration, rather than mere desegregation, was important for benefits to be realized. A parallel argument is made in the legal cases concerning affirmative action in higher education: educational benefits of diversity depend on curricular and co‐curricular experience with diverse peers, not merely on their co‐existence in the same institution ( Gurin, P., 1999 , Gurin, Dey, Hurtado, & Gurin, 2002 ). Positive benefits of diversity were demonstrated in a study comparing students in a curricular diversity program with students in a matched control group (n = 174), and in a longitudinal survey of University of Michigan students (n = 1670) .