Peer relations and school resistance: Does oppositional culture apply to race or to gender?

Journal of Negro Education

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-245

  Lundy, Garvey F ^a   Firebaugh, Glenn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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