Skin Color and Identity Formation

Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

Edward Fergus (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2012
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-65171-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Edward Fergus

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.8.2012
Reihe/Serie	Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	380 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-65171-9 / 0415651719
ISBN-13	978-0-415-65171-4 / 9780415651714
Zustand	Neuware