This article presents some results from an empirical investigation of youth at different
functional levels, directing attention to the young people?s double challenge of being
a young person and belonging to an ethnic minority, especially their experiences of and
coping with race discrimination. There is also some material on the minority and
majority young people?s impressions of the ?others?. Positive management of the
ethnic challenge entails acceptance of ethnic belonging and amalgamated cultural
forms, along with an active constructive response to racially discriminatory experiences.
In the empirical investigation these experiences and strategies are illustrated in the
young people?s narratives. Finally, views of the roles of family and society are delineated
for young people who take on the double challenge positively. |