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The Legacy of Child Development's 1990 Special Issue on Minority Children: An Editorial Retrospective
Author(s) -
McLoyd Vonnie C.
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.1467-8624.2006.00952.x
Subject(s) - ethnic group , perspective (graphical) , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , ideology , zeitgeist , psychology , set (abstract data type) , child development , mexican americans , developmental psychology , sociology , epistemology , politics , anthropology , political science , history , law , philosophy , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , programming language
Sixteen years have passed since the publication of Child Development 's Special Issue on Minority Children . It is suggested that the most critical legacy of the special issue is the conceptual and ideological zeitgeist it fostered. The issue set culture and ecological context in the foreground of analyses, advanced a cultural‐variant perspective, and further discredited the deficit perspective that long dominated the study of ethnic minority children and families. The special issue is also significant for its role in shaping post‐1990 research agenda. In addition, it underscored the need for more nuanced articulations of what cultural or ethnic characteristics are of special relevance for understanding specific domains of development and the need for well‐crafted methodological tools with which to test these ideas.