TY - BOOK ID - 30996481 TI - Skin color and identity formation : perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation among Mexican and Puerto Rican youth PY - 2004 SN - 1135931305 1280168323 0203338243 041594970X 0415651719 1135931291 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Mexican Americans KW - Puerto Ricans KW - Mexican American youth KW - Puerto Rican youth KW - Urban high schools KW - Human skin color KW - Education (Secondary) KW - Race identity KW - Attitudes. KW - Social aspects KW - Color of human beings KW - Color of man KW - Human beings KW - Pigmentation of human skin KW - Skin KW - Skin color, Human KW - Skin pigmentation, Human KW - Youth, Puerto Rican KW - Youth, Mexican American KW - Chicanos KW - Hispanos KW - Color KW - High schools KW - Urban schools KW - Youth KW - Ethnology KW - Boricuas KW - puerto KW - rican KW - students KW - academic KW - orientation KW - ethnic KW - identification KW - cultural KW - ecological KW - model UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30996481 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 -