Legal logics of scale and racial consciousness in affirmative action jurisprudence

Urban Geography

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-41

  Forest, Benjamin ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Legal geography; Race; Racial segregation; Scale

Indexed keywords

LEGAL SYSTEM; PLANNING LEGISLATION; RACE; SCALE EFFECT; SOCIAL SEGREGATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442700027     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.25.1.31     Document Type: Article

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