Contesting stereotypes and creating identities : social categories, social identities, and educational participation / Andrew J. Fuligni, editor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Andrew J. Fuligni -- Past as present, present as past: historicizing black education and interrogating "integration" / Anne Galletta and William E. Cross, Jr. -- Essentialism and cultural narratives: a social-marginality perspective / Ramaswami Mahalingam -- Relations among social identities, intergroup attitudes, and schooling: perspectives from intergroup theory and research / Meagan M. Patterson and Rebecca S. Bigler -- Racial-ethnic identity: content and consequences for African American, Latino, and Latina youths / Daphna Oyserman, Daniel Brickman, and Marjorie Rhodes -- Social identity, stereotype threat, and self-theories / Catherine Good, Carol S. Dweck, and Joshua Aronson -- Ethnicity, ethnic identity, and school valuing among children from immigrant and non-immigrant families / Jason S. Lawrence, Meredith Bachman, and Diane N. Ruble -- Women of color in college: effects of identity and context on contingent self-worth / Julie A. Garcia and Jennifer Crocker -- The meaning of "blackness": how black students differentially align race and achievement across time and space / Carla O'Connor, Sonia DeLuca Fernández, and Brian Girard -- The role of peers, families, and ethnic-identity enactments in educational persistence and achievement of Latino and Latina youths / Elizabeth Birr Moje and Magdalena Martinez -- Family identity and the educational persistence of students with Latin American and Asian backgrounds / Andrew J. Fuligni, Gwendelyn J. Rivera, and April Leininger.