Belonging to Puerto Rico and America: Children's Developing Conceptualization of Their Own Cultural Group -- Contents -- Preface -- An Introduction -- Background -- Children as Cultural and Ethnic Beings -- Culture and Ethnicity -- Conceptualizing Oneself -- Conceptualizing Others -- Focus of This Research -- Children of Immigrant Families -- Children of Immigrant Families Are a New Second Generation -- Children as Conceptual Thinkers -- Consciousness -- Conceptual Development -- Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- Asking Puerto Rican Children about Puerto Ricanness -- Questions which Focused the Study -- Pilot Study 1: Adult and Child Focus Groups to Identify Cultural Group Domains -- Pilot Study 2: Individual Children's Interviews to Identify Methodologies -- The Study: Individual Interview Methodologies -- Country (Puerto Rico) -- Patterns in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- General Patterns in the Children's Conceptualization -- Frequency of Referencing Incidents (FRIs) -- Conceptual Level (CL) -- Global Levels of Conceptualization -- Differentiated Level of Conceptualization -- Integrated Level of Conceptualization -- Age-Related Patterns in the Children's Conceptualization -- First Grade -- Third Grade -- Fifth Grade -- Gender-Related Patterns in the Children's Conceptualization -- The Development of Children's Overall Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- Conceptual Levels -- Global Conceptualization -- Differentiated Conceptualization -- Integrated Conceptualization -- Hierarchically Integrated Conceptualization -- Emergent Themes in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- Emergent Themes in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Importance of Homeland in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness.

The Children's Thinking About the Importance of Homeland -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Homeland -- Level I: Pre-Political -- Level II: Quasi-Political -- Level III: Political -- The Importance of Family Ties in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of Family Ties -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Family Ties -- The Importance of Physical Appearance in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of Physical Appearance -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Physical Appearance -- The Importance of Language in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of Language -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Language -- The Importance of the "Specialnes" of Puerto Rican People in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of the Specialness of Puerto Rican People -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of the "Specialness" of Puerto Rican People -- The Importance of Prejudice in the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of Prejudice -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Prejudice -- The Importance of Safety in the Children's Conceptualiztion of Puerto Ricanness -- The Children's Thinking about the Importance of Safety -- Theory and the Children's Thinking about the Importance of Safety -- Thinking about the Children's Thinking and Thinking about Application -- Cultural Group Domains in Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness -- The Development of the Children's Conceptualization of Puerto Ricanness.

The Children as Conceptual Thinkers -- Thinking about Application -- A Word about a Word about Methodology -- Appendices -- Appendix A. -- Appendix B. -- Phase I -- Phase II -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F. Frequency of Referencing Incidents for Each Domain for Each Child -- Appendix G. Conceptual Level for Each Domain for Each Child -- Appendix H. -- Appendix I. Selected Children's Profiles -- References -- Index.