Discursive Constructions of Racial Boundaries and Self-Segregation on Campus
Richard Buttny conducts a study on lunchroom eating patterns in a college campus and lists his findings in this report. Buttny aims to investigate the issue of self-segregation on a college campus and thereby emphasizes in his reports the congregation patterns of students with different ethnicities. In his study, both African-American students and Caucasians students view a video called Racism 101, and Buttny records the discussion between the students and analyzes their discourse to further examine the deeper causes of self-segregation.

The Cavalier Daily: Solving self-segregation by selecing varied activities
The Cavalier, the University of Virginia’s newspaper, acknowledges that self-segregation exists, but claims that solving self-segregation is up to the students. The University of Virginia then offers many solutions to “cure” the problem of self-segregation. The Cavalier’s story about self-segregation proves that some universities think that self-segregation is a problematic because it is the culmination of the attitudes that students hold. This implication means that racial attitudes and therefore prejudice plays a role in the emergence of self-segregation. If prejudice is a key factor in the production of voluntary racial separation, then it then must be effectively addressed.

CNN: Segregation now? Some still see racial divide on campus
This website suggests that self-segregation may cause racism, intolerance, and separation. This article highlights the case of self-segregation specific to University of Maryland students and provides some personal accounts given by students about why they chose to self-segregate. Students are the ones who experience self-segregation first-hand, and through analysis of their responses, an appropriate solution can be contrived. This site, without bias, examines the different views on self-segregation and its deeper implications.

The Fight Against Racism Today
Racism is the deeper implication of self-segregation. The site explains the many facets and forms of racism as they appear.  If racism is the deep-rooted cause of self-segregation, it must be addressed. This site presents many accounts of racism without bias, and demonstrates causality while presenting all the evidence for the racism that exists today.  This site then outlines some strategies to combat the inherent racism in society.

Tolerance.org
To fight hate and promote tolerance, this webpage offers techniques and ideas to eliminate racism, the deeper root of self-segregation. This webpage features a tool to reveal the reader’s bias. Once all the biases are revealed, only then can a thoughtful and unbiased solution be proposed. Tolerance.org is written for a wide audience and its only bias is that “hate” and “race” should not exist in our society, so therefore these two evils needs to be eliminated.

The Effects of Ingroup and Outgroup Friendships on Ethnic Attitudes in College: A Longitudinal Study
Shana Levin of Claremont McKenna College, Colette Van Laar of Leiden University, and Jim Sidanius of University of California, Los Angeles, conduct a longitudinal study that collected data from over 2000 White, Asian, Latino, and African American college students at UCLA. This website uses scientific evidence to interpret the implications of self-segregation on a college campus and offers the psychological viewpoint of the effects of self-segregation. The authors capture the implications of the continued effects of self-segregation, which I have mentioned in my “Implications” page.