Racial self-categorization in adolescence: Multiracial development and social pathways

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1298-1308

  Hitlin, Steven ^a,d   Brown, J Scott ^b   Elder Jr , Glen H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; RACE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33749031545     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00935.x     Document Type: Article

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