To be or not to be: an exploration of ethnic identity development in context.
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.
New York University, New York, USA.
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Carlos
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Erika Y
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Constance
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Kim-Gervey
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001741:Black or African American; D001213:Asian; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012933:Social Identification; D014481:United States