Becoming white: Reinterpreting a family story by putting race back into the picture

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 421-433

  Sleeter, Christine E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical race theory; Family history; Whiteness studies

Indexed keywords

MULTICULTURALISM; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RACIAL IDENTITY; RACISM; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 79960682726     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2010.547850     Document Type: Article

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