Full Description
Humans are a fundamentally social species. As individuals, we construct our identity through our affiliation, interaction, and identification with larger groups. And in diverse and multiethnic societies like ours, ethnic identity takes on an especially profound importance. In recent years, social scientists have been increasingly studying the meaning, process, and content of ethnic identity, but these efforts have been piecemeal, and the field as a whole has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity and methodological rigor.
In this book, editors Carlos Santos and Adriana Umaña-Taylor bring together a diverse group of social and applied scientists from a wide range of fields including educational anthropology, developmental, community and social psychology, and sociology. Together, they investigate the process by which ethnic identity is formed and maintained throughout the lifespan. Authors present qualitative and quantitative approaches to conceptualizing and measuring ethnic identity, including narrative psychology and ethnographic approaches, cognitive schemas and semi-structured interviews, as well as analyses of social networks. Throughout, authors present contextually-rich accounts of ethnic identity that keep the focus where it belongs, on the lived experience of real people.
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Stephen M. Quintana
Introduction: Ethnic Identity Research Across Diverse Perspectives
Carlos E. Santos and Adriana J. Uma amp ntilde a-Taylor
Ethnic Identity Research: How Far Have We Come?
Adriana J. Uma amp ntilde a-Taylor
Theoretical and Methodological Contributions of Narrative Psychology to Ethnic Identity Research
Moin Syed
A Critical Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Ethnic Identity: Chilean Mapuche Intercultural Bilingual Education
Patricio Ortiz, Guillermo Williamson, and Annette Hemmings
Studying Ethnic Schemas: Integrating Cognitive Schemas Into Ethnicity Research Through Photo Elicitation
Wendy D. Roth
Understanding the Association Between Phenotype and Ethnic Identity
Irene L amp oacute pez, Lovey H. M. Walker, and Melek Yildiz Spinel
Using Semistructured Interviews to Examine Adolescent Racial amp ndash Ethnic Identity Development
Leoandra Onnie Rogers and Niobe Way
Friendship Networks and Ethnic amp ndash Racial Identity Development: Contributions of Social Network Analysis
Olga Kornienko, Carlos E. Santos, and Kimberly A. Updegraff
Adolescent Ethnic Identity in Context: Integrating Daily Diaries, Biannual Surveys, and School-Level Data
Sara Douglass and Tiffany Yip
Current and Future Directions in Ethnic amp ndash Racial Identity Theory and Research
Carlos E. Santos
Index
About the Editors
