Theoretical analysis of resilience and identity: An African American engineer’s life story

Thinking Comprehensively about Education: Spaces of Educative Possibility and their Implications for Public Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 161-178

  McGee, Ebony ^a   Spencer, Margaret Beale ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Comparative Human Development ^*

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203120019     Document Type: Chapter

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