Exploring multiracial individuals'comfort with intimate interracial relationships

Journal of Social Issues

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-103

  Bonam, Courtney M ^a   Shih, Margaret ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOLOGY; RACIAL IDENTITY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

EID: 58949100457     PISSN: 00224537     EISSN: 15404560     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.01589.x     Document Type: Article

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