Indigenous identity: a view from social psychology

Abstract This study consists in a integrative review whose aim is to identify how social psychology has abroached the questions relating to indigenous identity. The survey was done from articles that deal with indigenous questions in the perspective of social psychology in electronic bases: SciELO, Pepsic, LILACS, BVS-Psi e APA. The descriptors were: ethnic identity, indigenous, indian, social identity and social psychology. By considering the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 19 national and internacional studies were compiled, referring to the last decade, published Psychology magazines, by making evident the recent character of studies that may approximate Social Psychology and indigenous identity. By means of accomplished survey, it was found that the publications about the theme were organized in four axes: (1) comprehension of ethnic identity to arise from Social Psychology; (2) Social representations, preconception and discrimination against indigenous; (3) Effects of the interethnic relationship for indigenous and (4) The challenges of the relationship between the researcher and indigenous.