“Remember, It's Always Whites’ Ball”: Descriptions of African American Male Communication

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 287-300

  Orbe, Mark P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTHEAST   (United States)

Author keywords

African American communication; African American male; dominant subordinate groups; ethnicity culture race; interethnic communication; phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038837234     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463379409369935     Document Type: Article

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