Doctoral Dissertation Research: Formation of Ethnoracial Identity

这个项目调查了新群体的孩子融入美国社会的过程。更具体地说，它侧重于个人和群体层面的身份形成过程，这是他们结合的核心。这项研究将扩大对这些快速增长但很少被研究的群体的认识，特别是他们如何过渡到新的生活模式。研究结果将促进对身份形成的理解，并为关注新群体适应的政策制定者和教育工作者以及旨在缓解其过渡的群体内外的工作者提供信息。本研究采用民族志观察和访谈的方式，对布朗克斯区和布鲁克林区的高中学生和教师进行访谈，探讨他们的融合经历和身份形成过程。将对来自新群体的50名儿童进行半结构化访谈，以及来自较成熟群体的40名学生进行比较和对比，但在学习成绩和经济状况方面基本相当。此外，还将对20名教师和工作人员进行面试。这些访谈将辅以对教室、当地娱乐区和当地商业中心的人种学观察。数据和对比的观点将阐明如何民族身份可能形成和变化在一个多样化的环境。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project investigates the processes by which children of new groups integrate into American society. More specifically, it focuses on the individual and group-level identity-formation processes central to their incorporation. This study will expand knowledge of these fast-growing but little-studied groups, especially of how they are transitioning to new patterns of life. Findings will advance understanding of identity formation and inform policy makers and educators concerned with the adaptation of new groups, and workers both outside and inside the groups whose goal is to ease their transitions.This study uses ethnographic observations and interviews with high school students and teachers in the Bronx and Brooklyn to explore their integration experiences and the identity-formation processes central to their incorporation. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with 50 children from new groups plus, for comparison and contrast, 40 students from more established groups but generally matched on school performance and economic status. In addition, 20 teachers and staff will be interviewed. These interviews will be supplemented with ethnographic observations of classrooms, local recreation areas, and local commercial centers. The data and contrasting perspectives will illuminate how ethnoracial identity may be formed and changed in a diverse environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.