
Department News
December 4, 2019
IBM Professor and Sociology Department Chair, Grace Kao, published a new book under the ASA Rose Series with Russell Sage Foundation titled, “The Company We Keep” which explores how young people form interracial friends and romantic relationships. By analyzing a dataset of more than 15,000 students from over 100 schools, Professor Kao discovered that youth who are part of a diverse school community are more likely to have interracial relationships later in life. Read more here.