Toward a multiracial, feminist social-democratic praxis: Lessons from grassroots warriors in the U.S. war on poverty

Social Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 286-313

  Naples, Nancy A ^a  

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DOI: 10.1093/sp/5.3.286     Document Type: Article

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