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Validating A Measure Of Ethnic Identity In Afro-Caribbean American Students, Keisha V. Thompson
Validating A Measure Of Ethnic Identity In Afro-Caribbean American Students, Keisha V. Thompson
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The purpose of this study was to validate the Multi group Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) on a sample of Afro- Caribbean American college students. This investigation is unique in that it disaggregated the data to go beyond the usual labels of Black and African American used in past validation studies. Due to being subsumed in the past under such monikers, information on the ethnic identity of Afro-Caribbean American college students has largely been missing from the literature. This investigation served as a comparison to past investigations on ethnic identity in populations of African descent. The results of this study indicated …