How Does Identity Development Affect Racial Identity?

When discussing identity, there are many ways, shapes, and forms that your identity can be affected. One article found conducted a study on how identity development is affected through social interaction, action, and recognition. It also talks about many studies done on identity development. Education researchers have turned an eye towards the basis of attitudes and behaviors, but they are extremely complex and challenging to understand. An alternate view to figuring out and understanding behavior can be found through the examination of identity. This is yet just a very new territory for research on identity development. Many intellectuals have suggested that identity can link to behavior due to individuals act habitually with their identity. Through engagement with practice, action, and recognition one is constantly in the process of “becoming.” Identity is expressed through action. (Stapleton, 2015) Most literature based on upon education has explained social …show more content…
Each status represents a group of beliefs, values, reasonable styles, and attitudes in relation to their own race and other races. These statuses vary from simple to complex in one's ability to process and respond to racial stimuli in positive ways. For both people white and colored growth in racial identity shows a movement from an identity formed on outside influences to an identity formed through inside influences. The beginning of racial identity development for both white people and people of color is the start of socialization in racially drawn dynamics. As one grows they may obtain distance from beliefs that reflect socially derived racism and reach an identity status based on personally held guilt. Racial identity statuses that do not follow social norms are generally external derived identity, while statuses that follow social norms generally are based on internally derived identity. (Gushue et al,