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Publication Date: 2005-Feb
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Black Youth, Identity, and Ethics
Duncan, Garrett Albert
Educational Theory, v55 n1 p3-22 Feb 2005
This article examines stage models of racial identity that researchers and educators use to explain the subjective processes that influence how black youth navigate school. Despite the explicit challenge that most models of racial identity have posed to racist discourses in the research literature, the underlying ethics of their developmental trajectories is constrained by a politics of respectability that subverts a larger project of affirming black humanity. I use interview data to propose an alternative model for how black adolescent identity is formed. I conclude with a discussion of the importance of rethinking black adolescence in the context of changes in communication technologies associated with postindustrialism and globalization.
Descriptors: Global Approach, Information Technology, Identification (Psychology), African American Children, Racial Identification, Ethics, Adolescents, African Americans
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