"I'm Not Going to Become No Rapper": Stereotypes as a Context of Ethnic and Racial Identity Development

Journal of Adolescent Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 407-430

  Way, Niobe ^a   Hernández, María G ^a   Rogers, Leoandra Onnie ^b   Hughes, Diane L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

early adolescence; ethnic and racial identity; qualitative methods; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878386617     PISSN: 07435584     EISSN: 15526895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0743558413480836     Document Type: Article

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