Doing Race in the Context of Feminist Interviewing: Constructing Whiteness Through Talk

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 895-914

  Best, Amy L ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

feminist interviewing; racial identity construction; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644753215     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800403254891     Document Type: Article

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