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A review essay on books by: Ruth Sidel, Battling Bias: The Struggle for Identity and Community on College Campuses (Viking Press, 1994); & Paul Rogat Loeb, Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (Rutgers U Press, 1994 [see listings in IRPS No. 82]). Taken together, Sidel & Loeb provide the most in-depth look at college students since the 1960s studies of campus activism. Interviews with 100+ students led Sidel to conclude that people of color, gays, lesbians, & women are still made to feel like outsiders on today's college campuses. She also found that, in response, some students turn to political activism, others focus on academics, & still others become alienated & drop out. Visits to 100+ college campuses & participant observation of students in class, in the dormitories, & at protests led Loeb to conclude that students of the current generation are more cynical, conservative, scared to act politically, & ambivalent on issues of race than students of the 1960s. Loeb also noted that students are more concerned about their careers than civic involvement. M. Maguire

This study derives from South African experience an analysis of techniques for heightening racial tensions. The basic processes are: (1) the heightening of racial consciousness by systematically extending the range of activities in which racial identity is relevant, & indeed crucial, eg marriage, sex relations, worship, study, trade, residence etc, (2) the application of positive & negative sanctions to reward & punish observance of the racial conditions attaching to soc relationships, (3) the channelling of heightened race consciousness in the direction of racial prejudice, by fostering unfavorable racial stereotypes, by explicit ideology, & by the concept of the inevitability of conflict in contact situations involving members of diff races, & (4) the interaction of prejudice & discrimination in a selfperpetuating mechanism, systematic racial discrimination intensifying sentiments of racial prejudice which seek expression in extended discrimination, so that discrimination & prejudice feed on each other. A discussion of relations between prejudice & discrimination which might give rise to overconformity is presented, & an application of the findings to the reduction of tensions by legislative action against discrimination Is suggested. AA.