Trajectories of Ethnic-Racial Identity and Autonomy Among Mexican-Origin Adolescent Mothers in the United States

This paper describes the status of multicultural assessment training, research, and practice in the United States. Racism, politicization of issues, and demands for equity in assessment of psychopathology and personality description have created a climate of controversy. Some sources of bias provide an introduction to major assessment issues including service delivery, moderator variables, modifications of standard tests, development of culture-specific tests, personality theory and cultural/racial identity description, cultural formulations for psychiatric diagnosis, and use of findings, particularly in therapeutic assessment. An assessment-intervention model summarizes this paper and suggests dimensions that compel practitioners to ask questions meriting research attention and providing avenues for developments of culturally competent practice.

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Racialization through Enforcement

10.1093/oso/9780198814887.003.0011 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jennifer M. Chacón ◽

Susan Bibler Coutin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Racial Identity ◽

Racial Profiling ◽

The United States ◽

Immigration Law ◽

National Origin ◽

Immigration Enforcement ◽

Racial Hierarchy ◽

Judicial Decisions

Immigration law and enforcement choices have enhanced the salience of Latino racial identity in the United States. Yet, to date, courts and administrative agencies have proven remarkably reluctant to confront head on the role of race in immigration enforcement practices. Courts improperly conflate legal nationality and ‘national origin’, thereby cloaking in legality impermissible profiling based on national origin. Courts also maintain the primacy of purported security concerns over the equal protection concerns raised by racial profiling in routine immigration enforcement activities. This, in turn, promotes racially motivated policing practices, reifying both racial distinctions and racial discrimination. Drawing on textual analysis of judicial decisions as well as on interviews with immigrants and immigrant justice organization staff in California, this chapter illustrates how courts contribute to racialized immigration enforcement practices, and explores how those practices affect individual immigrants’ articulation of racial identity and their perceptions of race and racial hierarchy in their communities.

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Religion, Social Incorporation, and Civic Engagement among Generations

Ethnic Church Meets Megachurch ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479804757.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Prema A. Kurien

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Racial Identity ◽

Civic Engagement ◽

Second Generation ◽

Civic Participation ◽

The United States ◽

Religious Institutions ◽

Immigrant Generation ◽

Intergenerational Differences ◽

First And Second Generation

Chapter 5 shows how negotiations and disagreements between generations shape the civic engagement of Mar Thoma American congregations in the United States and India. Recent studies have demonstrated that participation in religious institutions facilitates the civic incorporation of contemporary immigrants. These studies have focused on either the immigrant generation or on the second generation. In one way or another, these studies indicate that concepts of identity and of religious obligation play an important role in motivating civic participation. Not surprisingly, given the different models of religion of immigrants and their children, definitions of community and their perceived Christian obligations toward this community varied between first- and second-generation Mar Thomites. There are no academic studies that examine how intergenerational differences in the understanding of religious and racial identity affect the civic engagement of multigenerational congregations. This is important to understand, however, as most religious institutions of contemporary immigrants are multigenerational.

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Chapter 5 How Is the Health of the Mexican-Origin Population on Both Sides of the Border Affected by Policies and Attitudes in the United States?

The Trump Paradox ◽

10.1525/9780520972513-009 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 78-87

Author(s):

Fernando Riosmena ◽

Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez ◽

Megan Reynolds ◽

Justin Vinneau

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Mexican Origin

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RACE, EMPIRE, AND THE LIMITS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH NATIONHOOD

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x03003339 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 46 (4) ◽

pp. 873-892 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

COLIN KIDD

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nineteenth Century ◽

Racial Identity ◽

The United States ◽

Late Nineteenth Century ◽

Home Rule ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

War Of Independence ◽

The People ◽

Late Nineteenth

Scotland's Unionist culture has already become a world we have lost, investigation of which is hampered by the misleading notion of a ‘Celtic fringe’. Nineteenth-century Lowland Scots were not classified as Celts; indeed they vociferously projected a Teutonic racial identity. Several Scots went so far as to claim not only that the Saxon Scots of the Lowlands were superior to the Celts of the Highlands, but that the people of the Lowlands came from a more purely Anglian stock than the population of southern England. For some Scots the glory of Scottish identity resided in the boast that Lowlanders were more authentically ‘English’ than the English themselves. Moreover, Scottish historians reinterpreted the nation's medieval War of Independence – otherwise a cynosure of patriotism – as an unfortunate civil war within the Saxon race. Curiously, racialism – which was far from monolithic – worked at times both to support and to subvert Scottish involvement in empire. The late nineteenth century also saw the formulation of Scottish proposals for an Anglo-Saxon racial empire including the United States; while Teutonic racialism inflected the nascent Scottish home rule movement as well as the Udal League in Orkney and Shetland.

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The Los Angeles "Zoot Suit Riots" Revisited: Mexican and Latin American Perspectives

Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos ◽

10.2307/1052202 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 367-391 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Richard Griswold del Castillo

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Latin American ◽

Mexican American ◽

American Culture ◽

The United States ◽

Mexican Origin ◽

Latin Americans ◽

Zoot Suit

The so-called Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles in June of 1943 made Latin Americans more aware of the negative racial attitudes within the United States toward Mexicans. Through the publicity surrounding the riots, they also first learned of the existence of a large ethnic group of Mexican origin. This knowledge, however, often came with an additional message that the Mexican American culture was not worthy of esteem by respectable people. / Los disturbios llamados "Zoot-Suit" que ocurrieron en Los Angeles en Junio 1943 hizo saber a los latino americanos que las actitudes de los norteamericanos hacia los mexicanos no eran muy positivas. A través de la publicidad durante los disturbios, aprendieron por la primera vez de la existencia de un gran grupo étnico de origen mexicano en los Estados Unidos. Desgraciadamente esta información vino con otro mensaje que la cultura de los mexicoamericanos no era digna de honor por la supuesta gente decente.

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