"Points ain't everything": Emergent goals and average and percent understandings in the play of basketball among African American students

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 283-305

  Nasir, Na'ilah Suad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0034345874     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2000.31.3.283     Document Type: Article

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