Affirmative action: Perspectives from the United States, India and Brazil

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-14

  Boston, Thomas ^a   Nair Reichert, Usha ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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