IDENTITY RESOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ascher, C. (2000). Southeast Asian Adolescents: Identity and Adjustments. Internet: ERIC.

Carlip, H. (1995). Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out. New York: Time Warner. This book intended to let you listen to a range of girls’ real voices. It also provides an interesting study of how girls in various subcultures (homegirls, riot grrls, teen mothers, lesbians, cowgirls, farm chicks, rappers, surfers and sk8rs, jocks, sorority girls, homemakers and pageant queens) are working out their identities.

Chin, E. (2001). Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture. London and Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press. This professor of anthropology at Occidental College in LA studied children in New Haven where she had lived. It shows how children are influenced by and manipulate for their own tastes a consumer culture in which they are working out their identities.

Elkind, D. (1998). All Grown Up and No Place To Go. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. Anyone who cares about young people ought to be familiar with this book and its explanation of the stress incurred by young people whose identities tend to be “patchwork selves.”

Erikson, E. (1950). Childhood and Society.

Erikson, E. (1968). Identity: Youth and Crisis. Explores the importance and modern complexities of development and identity in his well-known study of adolescence.

Gilligan, C. (1982). In a Different Voice.  A corrective feminist approach to identity formation in girls and women.

Harter, S. Self and Identity Development. In Feldman, S. & Elliott, G. (eds.). (1990). At the Threshold: The Developing Adolescent. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press.

Nielsen, L. (1996). Adolescence: A Contemporary View. Harcourt Brace College Publishers. One of the better texts on adolescence, the issue of identity is dealt with throughout in many ways.

Oyserman, D. (Univ. of Michigan) & Harrison, K. (Wayne State Univ.). African American Identity in Adolescents. In (1999, Fall). African American Research Perspectives, 5(1).
This is an important review of the literature and an insiders’ perspective on the identity struggle among black youth.

Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Dopkins, S., Sabate, N., & Lightfoot, M. (2001). Personal and Ethnic Identity, Values and Self-Esteem Among Black and Latino Adolescent Girls. Internet: ReCAPP.

Shepard, S., with Kalergis, M.M. (1998). Seen and Heard. NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. Interviews with 51 US teenagers prove parents and others wrong when they say teenagers don’t want to open up. What these young people want to talk about are their identities, special interests and hopes.

Dean Borgman cCYS