Desegregation succeeds only after many varied optimal interracial situations

Evidence

Similarly, only after the US Army offered many types of optimal interracial situations could it conclude that its program of racial desegregation “works” (US Department of Defense 1955, Moscos & Butler 1996). — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Intergroup Contact Theory, 63

Categorization

• SEED: An essay on why one-off diversity initiatives fail while sustained, varied contact in institutions like the military actually moves attitudes.