Identity and school adjustment: Revisiting the "acting White" assumption

Educational Psychologist

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 21-30

  Spencer, Margaret Beale ^a   Noll, Elizabeth ^b   Stoltzfus, Jill ^b   Harpalani, Vinay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035580475     PISSN: 00461520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326985EP3601_3     Document Type: Article

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