Love, school, and money: Stress and cultural coping among ethnically diverse black college women: A mixed-method analysis

Western Journal of Black Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 77-86

  Robinson Wood, Tracy L ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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