Comfort zones: Immigration, Acculturation, and the Neighborhood Racial-Composition Preferences of Latinos and Asians

Du Bois Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-77

  Charles, Camille Zubrinsky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acculturation; Assimilation; Immigration; Racial Attitudes; Residential Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249141978     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X0707004X     Document Type: Article

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