Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory in Education? A Reply to Mike Cole's ‘the Color-Line and the Class Struggle’

Power and Education

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 125-131

  Gillborn, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 70350781666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2304/power.2009.1.1.125     Document Type: Article

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