Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : ethnic identity research across diverse perspectives / Carlos E. Santos and Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor -- Ethnic identity research : how far have we come? / Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor -- Theoretical and methodological contributions of narrative psychology to ethnic identity research / Moin Syed -- A critical ethnographic approach to the study of ethnic identity : Chilean Mapuche intercultural bilingual education / Patricio Ortiz, Guillermo Williamson, and Annette Hemmings -- Studying ethnic schemas : integrating cognitive schemas into ethnicity research through photo elicitation / Wendy D. Roth -- Understanding the association between phenotype and ethnic identity / Irene López, Lovey H.M. Walker, and Melek Yildiz Spinel -- Using semistructured interviews to examine adolescent racial-ethnic identity development / Leoandra Onnie Rogers and Niobe Way -- Friendship networks and ethnic-racial identity development : contributions of social network analysis / Olga Kornienko, Carlos E. Santos, and Kimberly A. Updegraff -- Adolescent ethnic identity in context : integrating daily diaries, biannual surveys, and school-level data / Sara Douglass and Tiffany Yip -- Current and future directions in ethnic-racial identity theory and research / Carlos E. Santos.

"Humans are a fundamentally social species. As individuals, we construct our identity through our affiliation, interaction, and identification with larger groups. And in diverse and multiethnic societies like ours, ethnic identity takes on an especially profound importance. In recent years, social scientists have been increasingly studying the meaning, process, and content of ethnic identity, but these efforts have been piecemeal, and the field as a whole has suffered from a lack of conceptual clarity and methodological rigor. In this book, editors Carlos Santos and Adriana Umaą-Taylor bring together a diverse group of social and applied scientists from a wide range of fields including educational anthropology, developmental, community and social psychology, and sociology. Together, they investigate the process by which ethnic identity is formed and maintained throughout the lifespan. Authors present qualitative and quantitative approaches to conceptualizing and measuring ethnic identity, including narrative psychology and ethnographic approaches, cognitive schemas and semi-structured interviews, as well as analyses of social networks. Throughout, authors present contextually-rich accounts of ethnic identity that keep the focus where it belongs, on the lived experience of real people"--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

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