TY - GEN AU - Fergus,Edward TI - Skin Color and Identity Formation: Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth T2 - Latino Communities: Emerging Voices - Political, Social, Cultural and Legal Issues SN - 9780203338247 PY - 2004/// CY - Oxford PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Education KW - bicssc KW - Sociology KW - Puerto Rican Students KW - puerto KW - Skin Color KW - rican KW - Puerto Rican KW - students KW - Academic Orientation KW - academic KW - Cultural Ecological Model KW - orientation KW - Phenotype Groups KW - ethnic KW - African American Peers KW - identification KW - External Interpretations KW - cultural KW - Vice Versa KW - ecological KW - Racial Congruence KW - model KW - Achievement Ideology KW - Hyphenated Identification KW - Immigrant Adaptation Process KW - Skin Color Variation KW - Ethnic Minority Students KW - Puerto Rican Culture KW - Detroit Public Schools KW - Involuntary Minorities KW - Hispanic Identification N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/102775/1/9781135931308.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/160636 ER -