'Becoming Black': African-Canadian youth and the politics of negotiating racial and racialised identities

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-108

  Sefa Dei, George J ^a   James, Irma Marcia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 0003036760     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1361332980010107     Document Type: Article

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