School-Based Racial and Gender Discrimination among African American Adolescents: Exploring Gender Variation in Frequency and Implications for Adjustment

Race and Social Problems

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-37

  Cogburn, Courtney D ^a   Chavous, Tabbye M ^a   Griffin, Tiffany M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; African American; Discrimination; Gender; Race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873621937     PISSN: 18671748     EISSN: 18671756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12552-011-9040-8     Document Type: Article

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