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Thursday, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Exploring Latine and Indigenous Latine Identity: How Environmental Factors Influence Racial-Ethnic Identity

This symposium highlights how studying Latine youth can be advantageous by providing novel insights on (1) how identity can differ within a single population and (2) how diverse environmental factors can influence racial-ethnic identity. Importantly, there is no consensus of whether Latine is a race or an ethnicity, combined with wide variation in skin tone and phenotype, further highlighting the identity ambiguity of this group. We will feature identity research with Latine youth across childhood and adolescence (including Kichwa Saraguro indigenous youth) using diverse research methods (surveys, semi-structured interviews, detailed interviews) to explore how environmental factors such as skin-tone, discrimination, and stereotype vulnerability influence racial-ethnic identity. Speaker 1 will discuss how Latine children with high ethnic-identities report lower race-based stereotype vulnerability, suggesting a link between the ethnic and racial constructs for Latine youth. Speaker 2 will demonstrate that among Latine girls with darker skin-tone and lower skin-tone satisfaction, experiencing greater microaggressions was related to greater ethnic-racial identity exploration and resolution, highlighting the identity-related consequences of phenotypic variation. Speaker 3 will showcase how Latine children with darker skin-tones prefer to fill out demographic forms that display their identity as a race instead of an ethnicity, showing that not all Latine people view their identity as an ethnicity. Lastly, Speaker 4 will present a qualitative analysis of interviews with Kichwa Saraguro adolescents in both Wisconsin and Ecuador that will explore how discrimination influences ethnic-racial identity in this group across countries.

Paper #1
Title	The Buffering Effects of Ethnicity: Ethnic Identity and Stereotype Vulnerability in Latine Children
Presenting author	Betsy Centeno, University of California, Santa Cruz, United States

Paper #2
Title	The Interplays of Racism, Colorism, and Gender on the Ethnic-Racial Identity of Latinx Youth
Presenting author	Kayla M. Osman, University of Arizona, United States

Paper #3
Title	The Role of Skin-Tone in Race and Ethnicity Self-Identification for Latine Children
Presenting author	Mercedes Munoz, Duke University, United States

Paper #4
Title	In Search of Belonging: A Comparative Analysis of Migration upon Kichwa Saraguro Youth's Diasporic Experiences
Presenting author	Luis M. Gonzalez-Quizhpe, Harvard University, United States

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Session chair
Mercedes Munoz, Duke University, United States

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