The Color-Line and the Class Struggle: A Marxist Response to Critical Race Theory in Education as it Arrives in the United Kingdom

Power and Education

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 111-124

  Cole, Mike ^a  

^a BISHOP GROSSETESTE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84855517247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17577438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2304/power.2009.1.1.111     Document Type: Article

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