Variability in the inter-group attitudes of white children: What we can learn from their ethnic identity labels

Social Development

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 758-778

  Brown, Christia Spears ^a   Spatzier, Agnieszka ^b   Tobin, Mollie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic identity; Inter group attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957122901     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2009.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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