A place to call home: Cultural understandings of heir property among rural African Americans

Rural Sociology

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 317-338

  Dyer, Janice F ^a   Bailey, Conner ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; LAND RIGHTS; LANDOWNERSHIP; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL POPULATION; SECOND HOME;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 53749089990     PISSN: 00360112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1526/003601108785766598     Document Type: Article

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