Review essay: Performing the twenty-first century tragic mulatto: Black, white, and jewish: Autobiography of a shifting self, by rebecca walker

Black Scholar

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 13-22

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EID: 76549106595     PISSN: 00064246     EISSN: 21625387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00064246.2009.11413494     Document Type: Article

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