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A Resultant of Intercultural Relations

Authors: B. W. Aginsky; E. G. Aginsky;

A Resultant of Intercultural Relations

Abstract

marized in this manner. Plant management encouraged a mild form of accommodation by a humanitarian and a patriotic appeal to white employees. Although initial employment of Negroes caused a number of white employees to terminate, such terminations decreased rapidly and steadily. Relationships among the two racial groups eventually became highly accommodative. There were white employees who merely tolerated employment along with Negroes. Negro employees in most instances accommodated to these employees by anticipating their negative attitudes and avoiding them. When they failed to do so, accommodation was supplanted by conflict. The majority of the relationships among Negro and white employees developed into conciliation. Frequently Negro and white employees became friends in spite of racial factors. Throughout the plant Negro and white employees worked together harmoniously. Favorable contacts enabled white employees with intense racial antipathies to recognize the fallacy of many of their racial beliefs. Such employees often became indignant that they had been misled as a result of racial indoctrination and developed more liberal attitudes toward Negro employees than many who were less prejudiced in the beginning. The impact of plant contacts resulted in a re-evaluation of their racial beliefs by white employees and favorable changes in their racial attitudes. The high degree of accommodation which existed between Negro and white employees indicated that acceptance of Negro employees as integral elements of the plant personnel is possible. Supervisors agreed that the work performance of Negro employees was equivalent to that of white employees. They agreed further that the employment of Negroes in the plant along with whites had proved successful. They concluded that in their ability to work harmoniously with white employees and in the quality of their work performance lay no reason for non-employment of Negroes after the termination of the war. Nevertheless statistics revealed that potential integration of Negro employees was greater than their actual plant integration. Employment of Negroes remained highly responsive to emergency factors. During the two year period they were persistently concentrated among the four low wage occupations in the plant. There was a gradual penetration of more desirable positions but there were never more than twenty Negro employees earning as much as $1.00 an hour. Management accommodated to integration of Negro employees less readily than non-supervisory employees, who evidenced a high degree of accommodation.

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