Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth / Edition 1

by Edward Fergus

Overview

The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415949705
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2004
Series:	Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Pages:	204
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface List of Tables Introduction 1. Theoretical Background 2. Methodology 3. Constructing Ethnicity: The Significance of Self-Identification and Culture 4. Teachers Say I Can Pass For Anything, Except White: Skin Color and External Identification 5. The Implications of Skin Color in Perceptions of Opportunity 6. Skin Color Differences in Academic Orientation 7. Discussion and Conclusion Appendices Bibliography