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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.

Mexican Americans --- Puerto Ricans --- Mexican American youth --- Puerto Rican youth --- Urban high schools --- Human skin color --- Education (Secondary) --- Race identity --- Attitudes. --- Social aspects --- Color of human beings --- Color of man --- Human beings --- Pigmentation of human skin --- Skin --- Skin color, Human --- Skin pigmentation, Human --- Youth, Puerto Rican --- Youth, Mexican American --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Color --- High schools --- Urban schools --- Youth --- Ethnology --- Boricuas --- puerto --- rican --- students --- academic --- orientation --- ethnic --- identification --- cultural --- ecological --- model