Socio-Psychological Processes in Racial Identity Formation: A Case Study of the Autobiographies of African American and Latino/a Activists.
This essay explores the social-psychological processes of racial identity formation. As a result of an analysis of the autobiographies of African American and Latino/a activists, a distinct trajectory in the development of racial identity around three sources of racial knowledge is proposed: (1) kin...
| Publicado en: | Humanity & Society Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 185 - 206 |
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Association for Humanist Sociology
August 2009
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