TY - BOOK ID - 135001615 TI - Skin Color and Identity Formation : perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth PY - 2005 PB - London, United Kingdom : Taylor & Francis, DB - UniCat KW - Mexican American youth KW - Puerto Ricans KW - Human skin color KW - Attitudes. KW - Education (Secondary) KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135001615 AB - 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. ER -