Assessed the impact of the Office of Management and Budget's revised standards for collecting race and ethnicity data on state health departments, highlighting the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The revised standards appear to affect state health departments, adding complexity to data collection and analysis, but producing a more…

Analyzes public debates over the authenticity of Wilkomirski's "Fragments: Memories of a Childhood 1939-1948" and Menchu's "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala," arguing that they explain how audiences read and understand disclosures of the experience of trauma and how cultural memory frames these discourses.…

Racial identity is an important but often overlooked aspect of working with Asian American college students. An understanding of racial identity theory can provide useful insight into the ways students experience and deal with college experiences, peers, and their identity. (Contains 21 references.) (Author)

Examines the direct impact of White racial identity of 124 counselor trainees on working alliance formation in a same-racial and cross-racial vicarious counseling analogue. Regardless of the race of the client, disintegration and reintegration attitudes negatively affected working alliance ratings, and pseudoindependent and autonomy attitudes…

This paper categorizes multiracial youth (N=1,496) ages 14 to 19 and compares them with each other and with monoracial youth on identity development measures. The multiracial categories used here are derived from youths' reports of their own and their parents' race(s). Comparisons are made within groups of multiracial respondents who make…

Through his detailed descriptions of schools across America, Kozol (1991) demonstrated the symbolic impact of the physical space of schools with disturbing examples of institutionalized racism made visible. Thus, Savage Inequalities also initiated a critical pedagogy of place by questioning the relationship of racial identity to the quality and…

While a great deal of research has been done on identity development around awareness of racism and heterosexism, little has been conducted on understanding how Jews come to make sense of the impact of anti-Semitism (anti-Jewish oppression) on their lives. This article, based on my qualitative dissertation (MacDonald-Dennis, 2005) that explores…

This paper focuses on race and racism with the underlying hope and expectation that in the near future the terms race and racism will be more accurately understood and, when necessary, more appropriately and selectively addressed by the field of counseling psychology. With respect to the term racism, it is hoped that the efforts of counseling…

This article presents classroom-based research conducted in a first-year undergraduate English and Cultural Studies course at an historically 'white' and Afrikaans university in South Africa. I document my attempt to address issues of social inequality, especially racism and the apartheid past, in a South African literature course. Drawing on…

Underlying pro- and anti-Black components accounted for significant variance in various racial scale scores among African Americans (N = 224). Intercorrelations for individual racial scale scores were consistent with theory and accounted for significant variance in psychological distress scores in patterns consistent with their representation of a…

What kinds of diversity initiatives and cross-racial interactions foster learning among diverse students? In response to that question, the authors trace various social psychological theories that inform campus diversity programs. Making a case for moving beyond traditional "intergroup harmony" or "intragroup solidarity" approaches, the authors…

A survey of the literature reveals that there is conceptual confusion and inconsistent and sometimes inappropriate usage of the terms racial identity, ethnic identity, and Afrocentric values. This study explored the extent to which Black racial(ized) identity attitudes were related to ethnic identity and Afrocentric cultural values. Two hundred…

A turn to "cultural diversity" in the curriculum offers a multitude of opportunities for educational practitioners: questioning Eurocentric knowledge; deconstructing "marginality"; recognising the ensuing hybridities, intercultural dialogues and encounters in a globalizing world. However, this article questions the current representational…

This study was designed to determine whether the length of time living in the United States negatively correlates with the ethnic identity of first generation Haitian high school students. The population cohort was a convenience sample of 83 Haitian high school students that included 41 females and 42 males. Phinney's Multi-Group Ethnic Identity…

The major purposes of the present study were (a) to examine the degree to which gender moderates the relationship between ethnic identity and academic achievement and (b) to examine whether psychological disengagement (i.e., devaluing academic success [DAS]) mediates gender differences in the academic achievement of African American college…