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Research Article
To be or not to be: An exploration of ethnic identity development in context
Article first published online: 2 JUN 2008
DOI: 10.1002/cd.216
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New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
Special Issue: The Intersections of Personal and Social Identities
Volume 2008, Issue 120, pages 61–79, Summer 2008
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How to Cite
Way, N., Santos, C., Niwa, E. Y. and Kim-Gervey, C. (2008), To be or not to be: An exploration of ethnic identity development in context. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2008: 61–79. doi: 10.1002/cd.216
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- Issue published online: 2 JUN 2008
- Article first published online: 2 JUN 2008
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Abstract
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. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.