Assessing multiracial identity theory and politics: The challenge of hypodescent

Ethnicities

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 357-379

  Spencer, Rainier ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Psychology Department   (United States)

^c College of Liberal Arts ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biracial; Hypodescent; Mixed race; Mixed race identity; Monoracial; One drop rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247656885     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796804045239     Document Type: Review

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