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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...

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Published in:Humanity & Society Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 185 - 206
Main Author: White, Monica M.
Format: Article
Published: Association for Humanist Sociology August 2009
Subjects:
Autobiography
Racial identity of Black people
Ethnic identity of Hispanic Americans
Activists
Group identity
Identification (Psychology)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost