'Murdering the alphabet' identity and entrepreneurship among second-generation Cubans, West Indians, and Central Americans

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1153-1181

  Fernández Kelly, Patricia ^a   Konczal, Lisa ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Class; Entrepreneurship; Ethnicity; Identity; Race

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; CULTURAL IDENTITY; ENTREPRENEUR; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 25844446260     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870500224513     Document Type: Article

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