Understanding Ethnic Diversity: The Role of Ethnic Identity.

Phinney, Jean S.

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ERIC Number: EJ541878

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Publication Date: 1996

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Understanding Ethnic Diversity: The Role of Ethnic Identity.

Phinney, Jean S.

American Behavioral Scientist, v40 n2 p143-52 Nov-Dec 1996

Recommends developing a secure, positive sense of one's racial identity through questioning preexisting attitudes and examining the past and present relationships between one's own and other groups. Describes several models of positive ethnic identity development for minority and white students. Discusses the implications of this research for education. (MJP)

Descriptors: Cultural Interrelationships, Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Relations, Ethnicity, Group Unity, Higher Education, Individual Development, Multicultural Education, Racial Attitudes, Racial Identification, Racial Relations, Self Concept, Social Development, Student Attitudes

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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