Diverse schooling shows up in relationships later

Young people who attend diverse schools are more likely later in life to befriend or date people of a different race, according to a new book.

In studying the forces that divide Americans along racial lines, Grace Kao, professor of sociology and chair of the sociology department at Yale University, examines two universal desires that bind us—friendship and romance.

Her new book, The Company We Keep (Russell Sage Foundation, 2019), explores how young people form interracial friendships and romantic relationships. Kao and her coauthors, Kara Joyner and Kelly Stamper Balisteri, analyzed a dataset of more than 15,000 students from over 100 schools across the country.

Here, Kao explains her research in a condensed and edited interview:

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