Your Average Nigga

College Composition and Communication

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 693-715

  Young, Vershawn Ashanti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 33645673095     PISSN: 0010096X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4140667     Document Type: Article

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