"They are like a friend": Othermothers creating empowering, school-based community living rooms in Latina and latino middle schools

Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 97-120

  López, Nancy ^a   Lechuga, Chalane E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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