Interracial conflict and interracial homicide: Do political and economic rivalries explain white killings of blacks or black killings of whites?

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 157-190

  Jacobs, David ^a   Wood, Katherine ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0040709341     PISSN: 00029602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/210270     Document Type: Article

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