Skin Color and Identity Formation : perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth / / Edward Fergus

• Autore: Fergus Edward
• Pubblicazione: London, United Kingdom : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 pages)
• Disciplina: 373.18296872073
• Soggetto topico: Mexican American youth - Attitudes; Puerto Ricans - Education (Secondary); Human skin color - Social aspects
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Mapping Explanations of academic variability and racial/ethnic identification -- 2. Methods -- 3. Portraits of Self-Identification -- 4. Negotiating Identification with Other Students and Teachers -- 5. Perceptions of Life Chances -- 6. Conceptualizing and Navigating the School Space -- 7. Toward an Understanding of the Educational Implications of Skin Colour Variation.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Skin Color and Identity Formation
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910476814503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II