Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Mapping Explanations of Academic Variability and Racial/Ethnic Identification -- CULTURAL MODELS: EXPLANATIONS OF ETHNIC MINORITY ACADEMIC VARIABILITY -- Cultural Deprivation -- Cultural Difference/Discontinuities -- Cultural Ecological Perspective of Academic Variability -- SITUATIONAL AND CONSTRUCTIONIST EXPLANATIONS OF RACIAL/ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION -- CIRCUMSTANTIAL AND SITUATIONAL FACTORS IN THE BOUNDARY MAKING OF IDENTIFICATION -- AGENCY AND THE BOUNDARY MAKING OF IDENTIFICATION -- SUMMARY OF LITERATURE -- Chapter Two Methods -- ADELANTE: A COMMUNITY CENTER -- CITY AND COMMUNITY DEMOGRAPHICS -- RESPONDENT SELECTION AND PARENTS' SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND -- DISTRICT AND SCHOOL DEMOGRAPHICS -- DATA COLLECTION -- DATA REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS -- Chapter Three Portraits of Self-Identification -- ETHNIC IDENTIFICATION -- HYPHENATED IDENTIFICATION -- ANCESTRAL/NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION: -- CULTURAL IDENTIFICATION -- INTERPRETATIONS OF CULTURE -- Ancestry in Puerto Rican Culture -- Family and spirituality in Mexican culture -- SUMMARY -- Chapter Four Negotiating Identification with Other Students and Teachers -- EXTERNAL INTERPRETATIONS OF SKIN COLOR -- White-looking Students -- MEXICAN/HISPANIC AND BLACK/BIRACIAL-LOOKING STUDENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter Five Perceptions of Life Chances -- DEFINING MAKING IT AND CHANCE -- GENDER, SKIN COLOR, AND RACE/ETHNICITY-BASED CO-NARRATIVES -- White-Looking Students -- Mexican/Hispanic-Looking and Black/Biracial-Looking Students -- SUMMARY -- Chapter Six Conceptualizing and Navigating the School Space -- ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AND ASPIRATIONS -- SCHOOLING EXPERIENCES -- White-looking students -- Mexican/hispanic-looking and black/biracial-looking students.

SUMMARY -- Chapter Seven Toward an Understanding of the Educational Implications of Skin Color Variation -- SELF-IDENTIFICATION AND EXTERNAL AGENTS -- SKIN COLOR AND PERCEPTIONS OF OPPORTUNITY -- SKIN COLOR AND ACADEMIC ORIENTATION -- THEORETICAL SIGNIFICANCE -- Appendix A Interview Measure -- INTERVIEW SCRIPT -- Attitudes and Constructs of Race and Ethnicity -- COMMUNITY COMPOSITION -- ETHNIC IDENTITY -- Knowledge of Ethnic Group Affiliation -- Social Group Affiliation -- SCHOOLING ORIENTATION -- Educational Aspirations and Expectations -- Engagement in school related activities -- Accommodation to schooling norms -- Opportunity and Differential Treatment in School -- PERCEPTIONS OF SOCIETAL OPPORTUNITY -- Self and Group Opportunity -- SOCIAL GROUP AFFILIATION AND ATTITUDES -- CONCLUSION -- Appendix B Letter to Parents of Respondents -- Appendix C Assent Form -- Appendix D Consent Form -- PERMISO -- Appendix E -- Appendix F Across and Within Case Data Matrix by Student -- Appendix G Across and Within Case Data Matrix by Phenotype -- Appendix H Conceptually Clustered Data Matrix -- Appendix I Are You Latina/o? Are You in High School? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin color moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of 17 Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study's analysis centered on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin color.

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