Where the talented tenth meets the model minority: The price of privilege in Wideman's Philadelphia fire and lee's native speaker

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Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 232-257

  Lee, James Kyung Jin ^a  

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DOI: 10.2307/1346185     Document Type: Article

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