Plessy as "passing": Judicial responses to ambiguously raced bodies in Plessy v. Ferguson

Law and Society Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 563-600

  Golub, Mark ^a  

^a SCRIPPS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 25644457509     PISSN: 00239216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5893.2005.00234.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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