Supports previous research findings demonstrating that black preschoolers show majority group racial attitudes. Eighty percent of the sample of 130 obtained positive self-concept scores, while demonstrating pro-white biased cultural values. Suggests that black preschool children effectively compartmentalize personal identity (i.e. self-concept)…

Examines questions about the development of the self asked in regards to Black children during the last 40 years. Focuses on traditional approaches to the self-system (awareness of individual's own characteristics and attributes); sex role and racial referents in identity processes; the process of understanding the identity development of Black…

Proposes possible cognitive structures for the development of race awareness and subsequent racial attitude formation and offers a developmental interpretation of this phenomenon in a sample of Black preschool children during a period of preoperational thought. (Author/MP)

Presents a synthesis and overview of literature on identity development in the childhood and adolescence of young people in ethnic and minority groups in the United States. (PCB)

The experiences of children are affected by both their ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Black children's performance in school reflects the group's marginality. The following issues affect the child's educability: (1) double stratification; (2) psychological risk; (3) adaptational processes; and (4) the relationship between psychological health…