The Denial of Difference: Reframing anti-racist praxis

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-38

  Sefa Dei, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0002973963     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1361332990020103     Document Type: Article

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