Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas

Racial-ethnic self-schemas: Multi-dimensional identity-based motivation.

Prior self-schema research focuses on benefits of being schematic vs. aschematic in stereotyped domains. The current studies build on this work, examining racial-ethnic self-schemas as multi-dimensional, containing multiple, conflicting, and non-integrated images. A multidimensional perspective captures complexity; examining net effects of dimensions predicts within-group differences in academi...

Racial-Ethnic Self-Schemas and Segmented Assimilation: Identity and the Academic Achievement of Hispanic Youth*

United States is once again experiencing record levels of immigration. As with European immigrants arriving a century ago, concerns have been raised about the ultimate success of the new arrivals from Latin America and Asia (Suárez-Orozco and Suárez-Orozco 2001). Of particular concern are future prospects for children of immigrants who arrive with few human-capital resources and settle in racia...

Racial and Ethnic Descriptors

In response to the lack of easily retrievable clinical data to address health services and medical effectiveness questions, especially as they relate to racial/ethnic minorities, the Center for Information Technology (CIT), Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) recently sponsored a project on record linkage methodology applied to automated medical administrative datasets containing...

Racial and Ethnic Groups

Ethnic and Racial Studies

This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds ligh...