The identity and changing status of former elite minorities: The contrasting cases of North Indian Muslims and American WASPs

Rethinking Ethnicity: Majority Groups and Dominant Minorities

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 27-34

  Wright, Theodore P ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 55149110717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203563397     Document Type: Chapter

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