"They cannot master abstractions, but they can often be made efficient workers": Race and class in the intelligence testing of Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas during the 1920s

Social Science Quarterly

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1014-1026

  Blanton, Carlos Kevin ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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