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Revisiting the 1990 Special Issue on Minority Children: An Editorial Perspective 15 Years Later
Author(s) -
Spencer Margaret Beale
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
child development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1467-8624
pISSN - 0009-3920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00925.x
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , ethnic group , theme (computing) , psychology , supreme court , race (biology) , child development , developmental psychology , sociology , law , gender studies , political science , artificial intelligence , computer science , operating system
The 2006 Special Issue on Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in Child Development occurs 15 years after the 1990 Special Issue on Minority Children and marks roughly 50 years since the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision. This issue provides an assessment of how researchers have represented development of America's diverse youth. This commentary provides a perspective of the progress and needs inferred from the 1990 special issue. A consistent theme is the necessity to link research and developmental theorizing with the intentions of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, as the relevant integration is often left to legal scholars, Whiteness studies theorists, and a few child‐development‐focused researchers (e.g., Cross, 1991; Spencer, 2005).