Promoting Academic Achievement: The Role of Racial Identity in Buffering Perceptions of Teacher Discrimination on Academic Achievement Among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 420-431

  Thomas, Oseela N ^a   Caldwell, Cleopatra Howard ^b   Faison, Nkesha ^a   Jackson, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

academic achievement; Black adolescent; racial identity; teacher discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349105849     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014578     Document Type: Article

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