Race as stigma: Positioning the stigmatized as agents, not objects

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 442-451

  Howarth, Caroline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Community; Embodiment; Identity; Ideology; Racism; Resistance; Social representations; Social structures; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751580452     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.898     Document Type: Article

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