Different, like everyone else: Stuff white people like and the marketplace of diversity

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 368-393

  Grzanka, Patrick R ^a   Maher, Justin ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Multiculturalism; Neoliberalism; Racism; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867549522     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/SYMB.24     Document Type: Article

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