Black Youths View Their Environment

FLORENCE C. LADD, psychologist, Lecturer and Research Associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is codirector of the research project, "Pathways to Identity," which is concerned with factors that influence the identities of black adolescents. The study of the influence of environmental factors such as neighborhood and housing on personal identity is one of the author’s major concerns. Prior to her affiliation with the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Mrs. Ladd was a post doctoral fellow in Community Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. She has taught at Simmons College, Robert College, and the American College for Girls in Istanbul.