Does it matter how we measure? Racial classification and the characteristics of multiracial youth

New Race Question, The: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 62-101

  Harris, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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