Mapping moral geographies: W. Z. Ripley's races of Europe and the United States

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 119-141

  Winlow, Heather ^a  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immigration; Moral geographies; Power of maps; Racial and anthropometric cartography; Social construction of race

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; MORALITY;

EID: 33644809954     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.2006.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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