Learning race, socializing blackness: A Cross-Generational Analysis of Black Americans' Racial Socialization Experiences

Du Bois Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 185-217

  Nunnally, Shayla C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Politics; Civil Rights Generation; Generational Politics; Post Civil Rights Generation; Racial Socialization; World War II Generation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956235831     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X10000159     Document Type: Article

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