Model majority? The struggle for identity among multiracial Japanese Americans

The Politics of Multiracialism: Challenging Racial Thinking

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 177-191

  King O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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