This research evaluated the psychometric adequacy of the Racial Identity Attitude Scale (RAIS). Participants (N=293) included college students and community residents ages 17 to 82 years. Results do not support the psychometric adequacy of the latest version of RAIS. Psychometric issues are discussed; caution is recommended in using RAIS. (EMK)

Examined the relations of self-concept, self-esteem, and racial preference to the academic achievement of 56 African-American preschool children in a Head Start program. Findings suggest that the development of academic self-esteem is important for the school achievement of minority children. (SLD)

Provides independent examination of psychometric properties of White Racial Identity Attitude Scale (WRIAS) and Oklahoma Racial Attitude Scale-Preliminary Form (ORAS-P). Factors reflecting attitudes were identified: degree of racial comfort (factor 1), attitudes toward racial equality (2), attitudes of racial curiosity (3), and unachieved racial…

Outlines three accounts of attitudinal differentiation between African American urbanites and suburbanites, using data from surveys of African Americans in Washington, DC, and Prince George's County, Maryland, to test hypotheses derived from these accounts (focusing on assimilation, transplantation, and identity persistence). Response patterns…

Describes young adult novels concerned with South Africa, written between 1992 and 1997, as they reflect both the old tensions and the new tensions that result when "apartness" no longer defines the national polity. Concludes that, despite some shortcomings in literary quality and broad authorship, young adult literature flourished there…

Explores Arab American invisibility as a central theme in the historical narrative of Arab immigrants and their descendants in North America. Addresses invisibility in terms of their paradoxical positioning within the U.S. racial/ethnic classification system. Argues that four central paradoxes shape their identity, noting that each paradox…

Several African-American authors of children's literature, including Deborah Hopkinson, Faith Ringgold, Courtni C. Wright, Valeri Flourneoy, Particia McKissack, and Bettye Stroud, use the tradition of quilts in their stories to "read the world." Quilts conceptualize identity and redefine history while introducing a dialectical tension…

Examines identity development from an indigenous American perspective that views sex, race, and gender identity as interconnected. Uses the indigenous concept of "two-spirit people" to demonstrate the inseparability of the experience of sexuality and the experience of culture and community. (SK)

Study examines the relationship between psychosocial development and racial development of 539 Black American, Asian American, and Latino American traditional-aged undergraduate college students. Findings suggest that both race and racial identity are clearly related to the combined tasks of psychosocial development. Explores implications for…

Examines the use of racial identity attitudes as predictors of racial mistrust of African Americans and other racial contact variables among Asian Americans. Results of study reveal that racial identity attitudes significantly predicted racial mistrust, overall group impression, four racial stereotypes, and two quality of racial contact variables…

Examines the relationship of ethnic identity to drug use in adolescents (N=127). Results show that the questionnaire measures used in this study are effective. White adolescents scored lower in ethnic identity. In the ethnic minority samples, high levels of cultural identity were associated with heavy drug use. (Author/MKA)

In this case study, the progression of racial identity development (RID) is described in two individuals. The study was designed to describe nonclinical experiences of being biracial, explore how Black identity has different meaning for biracial people, and distinguish between Black RID and biracial RID. Raises questions about the generalizability…

Examines Latina/o expressions and ethnic identities in reader letters to "Low Rider Magazine." Argues that articulations of Latina/o identity are complexly expressed as a means of establishing viable subject positions for these subaltern subjects. Concludes that communication scholarship should be cautious and careful in its explorations…

Everyone has multiple identities, socially constructed in society by way of discourses. Dominant discourses across race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and ability, and their consequences are explored. A model is provided for considering the interlocking nature of such socially constructed criteria. Examples involving implications for…

Examines gender to determine if it is an important variable to consider in understanding the psychosocial development of African American students. Results indicate that gender is an important demographic characteristic, with African American females generally more motivated about being in college than male students. (Contains 24 references and 2…