The black and the beautiful: Perceptions of (a) new Generation(s)

Critical Arts

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 99-127

  Tager, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

audience ethnography; multiculturalism and race; soap opera

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957803640     PISSN: 02560046     EISSN: 19926049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02560040903509226     Document Type: Article

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