Walking the Ethnic Tightwire: Ethnicity and Dialectic in Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives

Journal of American Culture

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 41-53

  Hug, Bill ^a  

^a English at Jackson ville State University   (United States)

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EID: 56449105079     PISSN: 15427331     EISSN: 1542734X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-734X.1997.00041.x     Document Type: Note

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