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To be or not to be: An exploration of ethnic identity development in context
Author(s) -
Way Niobe,
Santos Carlos,
Niwa Erika Y.,
KimGervey Constance
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cd.216
Subject(s) - ethnic group , intersection (aeronautics) , resistance (ecology) , social psychology , psychology , context (archaeology) , social identity theory , identity (music) , personal identity , gender studies , qualitative research , sociology , self concept , social group , geography , anthropology , ecology , physics , cartography , archaeology , acoustics , biology
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. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.