Taking race into account: Charting student attitudes towards affirmative action

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 670-690

  Park, Julie J ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Diversity; Political attitudes; Politics; Race; Students

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349257698     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-009-9138-7     Document Type: Article

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