Sources of self-categorization as minority for mixed-race individuals: Implications for affirmative action entitlement

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 453-460

  Good, Jessica J ^a   Chavez, George F ^a   Sanchez, Diana T ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Multiracial; Prototypicality; Self categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; ARTICLE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; STEREOTYPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PUBLIC POLICY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78549246750     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020128     Document Type: Article

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