Reports five experiments that challenge the view that young children's understanding of race is based primarily on superficial differences in appearance. Found that young children's inferences about human racial variation involved domain-specific reasoning that parallelled, but were distinct from, common sense understanding of naive biology. (DR)

Gives brief overview of multicultural theory (racial identity development, counselor racial consciousness development, and implications) and practice (specific multicultural issues and techniques) that could be included in a group leader training course. Includes a section providing some general suggestions for instructors teaching students to…

Gives overview of research on Super's theory across cultures within United States and internationally. Notes that research indicates that theory has some cross-cultural validity, yet there seem to be measurement concerns. Discusses two areas for future investigation: development of ethnic identity as vocational task and research on developmental…

Notes that increasing pluralism of Canadian society offers opportunities for research into cultural identity, components of value systems, interactions between people of different values, and effects of these on career development. Cautions career development investigators and/or practitioners to attend to needs of less visible, minority cultures,…

Conducted qualitative study of issues salient in development of racial identity for schoolchildren of African-American/white racial heritage. Conducted semistructured interviews with nine biracial children and their parents. Found that participant children and adolescents did not appear to perceive themselves as marginal in two cultures.…

Explored whether racial identity attitudes of African-American college students were predictive of psychological functioning measured as self-reported psychological symptomatology. Administered Racial Identity Attitude Scale, Bell Global Psychopathology Scale, and personal data sheet to 95 African-American college students. Findings suggest that…

When the White Racial Identity Attitude Scale was completed by 109 white college students, a significant relationship emerged between racial identity and work values, consistent with white racial identity theory. Results appear to suggest the need to understand race psychologically and developmentally. (SK)

Penn, Gaines, and Phillips in their article "On the Desirability of Own-Group Preference" (1993) should be applauded for their efforts toward more universal level of acceptance and accord. Their goal is not challenged, but their vision is lacking. True respect for and acceptance of others can never be achieved in the absence of respect…

Examines the paradigm of Pan-Africanism and the identity construct in the historic and cultural contexts of blacks outside of Africa, critiquing theories on the African identity construct. Suggests that black American identity is too complex for this simplification and must be considered within the context of world acculturation. Contains 34…

Focuses on the role of splitting and projective identification as active dynamics in the development and maintenance of cultural and racial prejudice. Illustrates ways in which attention to splitting and projective identification in the group setting can decrease prejudice and promote community building. (Author)

Explores the ways in which ethnicity is constructed by Filipino-American youths and examines the role played by generation in the formation of youth groups and identity construction within them. Findings from field observation and interviews with 20 Filipino-American males show changing gang roles from the 1960s through the present. (SLD)

Discusses how education is still a profession held hostage by images. Presents concerns dealing with racial expectations in the field of English education. Focuses and concentrates on the contents of the English language and literature professions that, although acknowledging its many diversities, avoids the distraction of "finding someone to look…

Examined the impact of racial identity attitudes on African American parents' child-rearing beliefs. Parent surveys indicated that parents with immersion attitudes endorsed discipline and religion but not independence in children. Parents with internalization attitudes supported all Afrocentric parenting beliefs and child-rearing practices…

Examines the relationship between acculturation and racial identity among African Americans. One hundred eighty-seven African American students completed the Black Racial Identity Attitude Scale and the African American Acculturation Scale (AAAS). Acculturation was associated with three of the five AAAS subscales: Dissonance, Immersion, and…

Explores what it means to be an American Indian in an era in which nearly half of the identifiable Indians live off the reservations and in urban areas. As the principal definition of "Indian-ness" today, the issue of blood quantum leads to misunderstandings. Being an Indian, to the author, is being a person connected to a tribe. (SLD)