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Faculty Spotlight: Onnie Rogers<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Northwestern University Institute For Policy Research<\/a>
\nNovember 2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nIPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers<\/a> examines how stereotypes affect youth identity.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

IPR developmental psychologist examines how children form their identities<\/em><\/p>\n

As an undergraduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, and as the only African-American gymnast on her college team, IPR developmental psychologist Onnie Rogers<\/a>\u00a0often found herself feeling like an \u201cexception.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember reading studies in my undergraduate courses and\u00a0thinking \u2018I\u2019m not supposed to be here,\u2019\u201d Rogers said. \u201cMy parents didn\u2019t go to college, we\u2019re an African-American family, working class \u2026. All of the data said I really shouldn\u2019t be in college.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rogers said she was troubled by this idea of being \u201cspecial\u201d somehow for making it, sparking questions about identity and self-perception. These questions have informed her research, which focuses on how cultural norms, expectations, and stereotypes affect how youth see themselves, particularly in terms of schooling and education.<\/p>\n

Identity Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

The idea of self is central across the world and across the lifespan, with some even arguing that the \u201cquest of life\u201d is searching to figure out who we are, according to Rogers. But \u201cwe don\u2019t live inside a little box and just decide independently who we\u2019re going to be,\u201d she pointed out. \u201cOur identities are inherently shaped by the contexts in which we\u2019re embedded, the historical moment, and societal beliefs, expectations, and stereotypes.\u201d<\/p>\n

So what do children understand about their identities?\u00a0Rogers, along with Andrew Meltzoff<\/a> of the University of Washington, interviewed 222 African-American, white, and mixed-race children at three racially diverse schools in Tacoma, Washington<\/a>. The researchers asked the children to rate how important racial and gender identities were to them\u2014either \u201cnot much,\u201d \u201ca little bit,\u201d or \u201ca lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the 2016 study<\/a> published in Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology<\/em><\/a>, children overall rated gender as a more important identity than race, but African-American and mixed-race children ranked race as more important than white children.\u00a0Moreover, children who rated race as not important were more likely to define race by saying \u201ceverybody is the same.\u201d But children who said race was important to them defined racial identity as a sense of pride and an awareness of group differences.<\/p>\n

“In some ways, it suggests that white kids and kids of color are navigating very different racial worlds and they’re thinking about the racialized self in very different terms,” Rogers said…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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