Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perceptions of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth (Latino Communities: Emerging ... Social, Cultural and Legal Issues)

The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color. Chapter Seven Toward an Understanding of the Educational Implications of Skin Color Variation -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND EXTERNAL AGENTS -- SKIN COLOR AND PERCEPTIONS OF OPPORTUNITY -- SKIN COLOR AND ACADEMIC ORIENTATION -- THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Appendix A Interview Measure -- INTERVIEW SCRIPT -- Attitudes and Constructs of Race and Ethnicity -- COMMUNITY COMPOSITION -- ETHNIC IDENTITY -- Knowledge of Ethnic Group Affiliation -- Social Group Affiliation -- SCHOOLING ORIENTATION -- Educational Aspirations and Expectations -- Engagement in school related activities -- Accommodation to schooling norms -- Opportunity and Differential Treatment in School -- PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIETAL OPPORTUNITY -- Self and Group Opportunity -- SOCIAL GROUP AFFILIATION AND ATTITUDES -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix B Letter to Parents of Respondents -- Appendix C Assent Form -- Appendix D Consent Form -- PERMISO -- Appendix E -- Appendix F Across and Within Case Data Matrix by Student -- Appendix G Across and Within Case Data Matrix by Phenotype -- Appendix H Conceptually Clustered Data Matrix -- Appendix I Are You Latina/o? Are You in High School? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin colour moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of seventeen Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students