Bright futures in Malawi's new dawn: Educational aspirations as assertions of identity

American Journal of Sociology

Volumn 117, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1565-1624

  Frye, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1086/664542     Document Type: Article

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