Various aspects of racial/ethnic (r/e) identity were compared in preschoolers from four racial/ethnic (r/e) groupings. Findings indicated a crucial factor in the development of r/e identity is whether r/e groupings are stratified in a given multiracial/multiethnic society. (Author/MJL)

Studied racial identity attitudes derived from Cross's racial identity model and respondents' racial self-designations used to predict Black college students' preferences for Black and White counselors. Racial attitudes accounted for a significant percentage of the variance involving preferences for counselor's race. (Author)

Because of their racial ambiguity in the United States, Asian Americans have been constructed historically to be both like and unlike Black and White people, and Asian American men have been both hypermasculinized and feminized, just as Asian American women have been both masculinized and hyperfeminized. (SLD)

Investigated whether black racial identity attitudes predict psychosocial competence as defined by F. Tyler's tridimensional model of psychosocial competence. Gender differences in racial identity attitudes were found for the sample of 103 black undergraduates, but black racial identity attitudes were not associated with the individual's sense of…

Describes the multiple dimensions of identity development and difference among 10 diverse women college students. Data analysis using grounded theory methodology yielded 10 key categories and a core category, which described contextual influences on the construction of identity. Findings reveal the deep complexities of identity development when…

This study investigated the role of racial identity and maternal support in reducing psychological distress among African American twelfth-graders. Results provided little support for a direct association between racial identity or maternal support and depressive symptoms and anxiety within a multivariate context. Influence of racial identity and…

Examines data on racial identification from the 2000 Census to document the mixed race population of children in the United States. Using California data as an example, the article considers various methods for tabulating multiple-response race data, noting the impact of each on demographic conclusions. Discusses how federal guidelines on race…

Study evaluated both the parenting styles and family ecologies models with interview responses from African American adolescents. Analyses contrasted each model with a joint model for predicting self esteem, self reliance, work orientation, and ethnic identity. Overall, findings suggest that a joint model that combines elements from both models…

Examines the local reception of global Spanish-language soap operas, or telenovelas. Explores how young people talked about Mexican telenovelas in daily life. Concludes that the telenovela, within certain limits, reflected some of the national, ethnic, gender, and class tensions that defined the viewers' identities as working-class, Mexican…

Interviewed 17 community college students to investigate their identity and the personal salience of various identity domains: race, gender, sexual orientation, relationships, career, religious beliefs, and political beliefs. Found that these seven domains varied in importance, with racial identity as the most salient. Concentrated on these…

Studied the interaction of socioeconomic background and precollege intergroup contact opportunities among 215 African American students at a predominantly white university. Also examined relationships among racial identification, perceptions of ethnic fit at college (PEF), and academic adjustment. Results indicate differing relationships with PEF…

Argues that interactants define and stabilize identity by producing identity artifacts with multimodal means, by constructing configurations of those artifacts, and by using those artifacts to project social space. Develops the argument through the close analysis of an episode of interaction from a high school English classroom in which one…

Explores, through critical performance ethnography, the performative constitution of whiteness in an introductory communication classroom. Suggests that white subjects often fail to see whiteness in action. Argues that race in general, and whiteness in particular, is a social communicative accomplishment--a performative constitution of identity…

Expands the Cross model of psychological Nigrescence to hypothesize the changes in racial identity that a Black person can experience at various points in the life cycle. Describes how various stages of racial identity are manifest at three periods of life: late adolescence/early adulthood, middle adulthood, and late adulthood. (Author/TE)

Analysis of Polish emigres' (N=90) responses to a value survey (in English or Polish) showed predictable differences, according to level of cultural identification, notably about values of spirituality and traditional/conservative responsibility. A follow-up study of emigres to Tasmania yielded both similarities and dissimilarities in value…