White faces, black faces: Is British sociology a white discipline?

Sociology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 945-960

  Wakeling, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'race'; Academics; Ethnicity; Postgraduates; Sociologists; Sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547869786     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038507080447     Document Type: Article

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