Doctoral Dissertation Research: Formation of Ethnoracial Identity

这个项目调查了新群体的儿童融入美国社会的过程。更具体地说，它侧重于个人和群体一级的身份形成过程的核心，他们的纳入。 这项研究将扩大对这些快速增长但很少研究的群体的了解，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，并告知政策制定者和教育工作者关注的新群体的适应，以及工人内外的群体，其目标是减轻他们的transitions.This研究采用人种学观察和采访高中学生和教师在布朗克斯和布鲁克林，探索他们的整合经验和身份形成过程中的核心，他们的公司。 将对来自新组的50名儿童进行半结构化访谈，并对来自较成熟组的40名学生进行比较和对比，但在学校表现和经济状况方面基本匹配。 此外，20名教师和工作人员将接受采访。 这些访谈将辅以对教室、当地娱乐场所和当地商业中心的人种学观察。 数据和对比的观点将阐明民族身份如何在多样化的环境中形成和改变。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

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.