Studying talk and embodied practices: Toward a psychology of materiality of 'race relations'

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 446-460

  Durrheim, Kevin ^a   Dixon, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Desegregation; Embodied practices; Identity; Lived experience; Place; Racial contact; Racism; Realism; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044440482     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.839     Document Type: Review

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