Recent immigration and race: Continuity and Change

Du Bois Review

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-165

  Vickerman, Milton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anglo Conformity; Assimilation; Black Immigrants; Black Middle Class; Black White Dichotomy; Hispanics; Multiculturalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249156046     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X07070087     Document Type: Article

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