"It's just a story": 'White' students' difficulties in reading the apartheid past

Perspectives in Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 37-45

  McKinney, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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