Edward Fergus 
Skin Color and Identity Formation [PDF ebook] 
Perception of Opportunity and Academic Orientation Among Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth

The focus of this study is on the ways in which skin colour moderates the perceptions of opportunity and academic orientation of seventeen Mexican and Puerto Rican high school students. More specifically, the study’s analysis centred on cataloguing the racial/ethnic identification shifts (or not) in relation to how they perceive others situate them based on skin colour.