Whites' explanations of blacks' socioeconomic underachievement: Individualism, structuralism, and status inconsistency

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1-21

  Kim, Young M ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

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