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Article: Are We Welcome? African American Racial Acceptance in Leisure Activities and the Importance Given to Children's Leisure.
- Article from:
- Journal of Leisure Research
- Article date:
- September 22, 1999
- Author:
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University of West Florida
This study investigated differences between middle-class African American and middle-class European American adults in their perceptions of how "welcome" African Americans are in 20 leisure activities common to the study area, and in the importance given to children's participation in these activities. A random sample of 45 blocks from a southern U.S.A metropolitan census tract composed of racially integrated middle-class neighborhoods yielded 124 African American and 170 European American households who rated the activities on Likert-type scales. Using 2-tailed t tests, with an F (folded) statistic to test for equality of the 2 ...