Fergus, Edward <br/><br/>
Skin Color and Identity Formation  Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth 

 - Oxford  Taylor & Francis  2004 
 - 1 electronic resource (208 p.) 
 - Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues .
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780203338247 9781135931308 9780203338247 9780415949705 9781135931292 9780415651714 9781135931254 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203338247  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education<br/>Sociology
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Puerto Rican Students puerto Skin Color rican Puerto Rican students Academic Orientation academic Cultural Ecological Model orientation Phenotype Groups ethnic African American Peers identification External Interpretations cultural Vice Versa ecological Racial Congruence model Achievement Ideology Hyphenated Identification Immigrant Adaptation Process Skin Color Variation Ethnic Minority Students Puerto Rican Culture Detroit Public Schools Involuntary Minorities Hispanic Identification