Children's television programming and the development of multicultural attitudes

The SAGE Handbook of Child Development, Multiculturalism, and Media

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 213-232

  Graves, Sherryl Browne ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781412982771.n15     Document Type: Chapter

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