Black, trigueño, white … ? Shifting Racial Identification among Puerto Ricans

Du Bois Review

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 267-285

  Vargas Ramos, Carlos ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Census; Puerto Rico; Race; Racial Categorization; Stratification

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749050549     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X05050186     Document Type: Article

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