ERIC Number: EJ797338
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 19
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To Be or Not to Be: An Exploration of Ethnic Identity Development in Context
Way, Niobe; Santos, Carlos; Niwa, Erika Y.; Kim-Gervey, Constance
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, n120 p61-79 Sum 2008
This qualitative study focused on the intersection of personal and ethnic identities among forty African American, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Chinese American high school students. The patterns in content indicated that for the Puerto Ricans, the intersection of their personal and social identities was a series of accommodations to a positive peer climate and a resistance to being Dominican. For the other ethnic groups, the intersection of their personal and social identities consisted of a process of resistance and accommodation to negative stereotypes projected on them by their peers and, for African Americans, themselves.
Descriptors: African Americans, Ethnicity, Stereotypes, Chinese Americans, Puerto Ricans, Qualitative Research, Social Psychology, Racial Attitudes, Racial Identification, Racial Relations, Context Effect, Participant Observation, Interviews, High School Students, Student Adjustment
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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