Shifting racial stereotypes in late adolescence: Heterogeneous resources for developmental change in the New Latino Diaspora

• In this paper we examine how resources, drawn from various scales, contribute to shifts in Latina girls' deployment of racial models of personhood.
• These changing perceptions are made possible by a set of contingent, heterogeneous resources, not by a predictable social process.
• Analysts must attend to heterogeneous configurations of resources from various scales in cases to uncover how social processes are made possible.

In this paper we examine how resources, drawn from various spatial and temporal scales, contribute to shifts in how three Latina girls' deploy racial models of personhood as they move from eighth to eleventh grade. We argue that these changing perceptions are made possible by a set of contingent, heterogeneous resources, not by any predictable social or developmental process. We describe the relevant resources by telling the stories of Valeria and her friends Maria and Gabriela, as they move from middle school through high school in Marshall, a New Latino Diaspora town.