Reports on exploratory study that used individual interviews and a focus group to investigate how women in Black-White heterosexual relationships describe their racial identity development over the course of the relationship. Participants described a process of restorying constraining narratives of racial identity into empowering racial identities…

Explores motivational factors that have influenced the educational achievement of 11 African American female college students and studies their attitudes toward individual and collective advancement of African Americans. These women generally perceived the collective advancement of African Americans as a possible outcome of their individual…

Argues the historical reference group orientation and personal identity study material done on blacks in the United States are flawed because they made inappropriate assumptions about the link between these two measures. Further, conclusions drawn from these materials constitute a major obstacle to the accurate understanding of the processes of…

Responds to an essay that examined the role of whites in multicultural education and reviewed three books on the subject, agreeing with the essay's assertion that having a positive white racial identity does not an antiracist educator make; questioning the essay's interpretation of the term marginalization regarding diverse students; and agreeing…

Explored experiences of African American students in a predominantly white university through hermeneutic interviews. Data revealed that students feel the university does not truly care about them as Black students, particularly because it does not solicit or respond to their concerns. Students also struggle to negotiate their participation in two…

After introducing identity and discussing how it has been used in multicultural education, the paper notes general challenges to this paradigm and uses data from an ethnographic study of a multiracial South African high school to critique multicultural education's treatment of identity, suggesting alternate theoretical paradigms, research…

Four bilingual educators of African ancestry discuss issues that affect them as teachers and that affect their students as ethnolinguistic minorities. The paper discusses views of culture and language; teachers' identity construction; students' identity construction; and a twofold educational response to students' academic and social needs as…

Examines perceptions of White student identity in response to a racial hate email circulated to minority students throughout a predominantly White university campus community in the U.S. in 1999. Indicates that even though White students did not feel the need to identify themselves as "White" because of its sense of normalcy, they enjoyed and…

Pilot tested the Africentric Home Environment Inventory (AHEI), an observational measure for racial socialization features of the home environment, collecting data during home visits with socioeconomically diverse, urban, African American families with preschoolers. There was a strong association between AHEI scores and family socioeconomic…

Psychosocial student development theory based on predominately white student populations may not be appropriate for Asian American students. The authors propose a new model of psychosocial development for Asian American students that takes racial identity and external influences into account. (Contains 49 references.) (Author)

This study explored the effects of the physical features associated with albinism on three groups of African American youths (ages 14-19) with albinism: those with no disabilities, those with visual impairments, and those with oculocutaneous albinism. No significant differences in self-esteem were found among the three groups. (Contains…

Investigates relationship between depression and racial identity of Ethiopian immigrants (N=101), using the Tedla-Hopkins Symptoms Checklist-15 and the Racial Identity Attitude Scale. A positive correlation was found between initial denial of one's membership in one's race and depression. Depression was also best predicted by education level.…

This article examines stage models of racial identity that researchers and educators use to explain the subjective processes that influence how black youth navigate school. Despite the explicit challenge that most models of racial identity have posed to racist discourses in the research literature, the underlying ethics of their developmental…

It would seem that in spite of the influx of Native literatures that evidence vibrant Native identities and perspectives, there are still those who would claim that Natives have vanished. The "vanishing Native" in current scholarship emerges from the idea that there is no such thing as a "pure" Indian identity, or the surprisingly widely accepted…

The primary purpose of this article was to offer a methodological critique in support of arguments that racial categories should be replaced as explanatory constructs in psychological research and theory. To accomplish this goal, the authors (a) summarized arguments for why racial categories should be replaced; (b) used principles of the…