Forced to choose: Some determinants of racial identification in multiracial adolescents

Child Development

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 730-748

  Herman, Melissa ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4043064350     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2004.00703.x     Document Type: Article

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