Challenges popular beliefs about the importance of cross-racial interactions as an antidote to racism in the increasingly diverse US. W. Carson Byrd shows that it is the context and framing of such interactions on college campuses that plays an important role in shaping students' beliefs about race and inequality in everyday life for the future political and professional leaders of the nation.

Preface xi
1 Easing into Views of Race and Inequality in Everyday
Life on Campus 1
2 Life before College: Factors Influencing Early Views of
Race and Inequality 23
3 Mixing It Up on Campus: Patterns of and Influences on
Student Interactions 57
4 Graduating Racial Ideologies: The College Impact on
Views of Race and Inequality 102
5 When Things Fall Apart: Identities and Interactions
within an Intersected Habitus 145
6 Interacting Futures and the Reproduction of
Racial Inequality 168
Appendix: Methodology 191
Notes 205
References 213
Index 227