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Skin color and identity formation : perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth / Edward Fergus.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fergus, Edward, 1974-
- Series:
- Latino communities.
- Latino communities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican Americans--Education (Secondary)--Michigan--Detroit--Case studies.
- Mexican Americans.
- Puerto Ricans--Education (Secondary)--Michigan--Detroit--Case studies.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Mexican American youth--Race identity--Michigan--Detroit--Case studies.
- Mexican American youth.
- Puerto Rican youth--Race identity--Michigan--Detroit--Case studies.
- Puerto Rican youth.
- Mexican American youth--Michigan--Detroit--Attitudes.
- Puerto Rican youth--Michigan--Detroit--Attitudes.
- Urban high schools--Michigan--Detroit.
- Urban high schools.
- Human skin color--Social aspects--United States.
- Human skin color.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Mapping explanations of academic variability and racial/ethnic identification
- Methods
- Portraits of self-identification
- Negotiating identification with other students and teachers
- Perceptions of life chances
- Conceptualizing and navigating the school space
- Toward an understanding of the educational implications of skin color variation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. $f CC BY 4.0 $u https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781135931292
- 1135931291
- 9781135931308
- 1135931305
- 9781280168321
- 1280168323
- 9780203338247
- 0203338243
- OCLC:
- 252999353
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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