Which young people were more affiliated to black people, and which to white?

We gave each of the young people two scores on the basis of their answers to the questions on the colour of their friends, whether they were more comfortable with black or white people, their colour preference for a future partner, and for an area to live in, and whether they named black or white heroes and heroines. The scores were a measure of the strength of their affiliation to white and to black people. There were very significant relationships between attending multiracial and state schools, believing their parents had influenced their views on racism, and affiliation to black people, and between attending predominantly white and independent schools, believing their parents had not influenced their views, and affiliation to white people (Tables 7.2 and 7.3: see Appendix). Living with white parents only was significantly related to being affiliated to black people, while living with black parents only was significantly related to being affiliated to white people, a finding which seemed related to the tendency of many black parents in our sample to send their children to predominantly white schools.