Public tales wag the dog: Telling stories about structural racism in the post-civil rights era

Du Bois Review

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 447-469

  Rose, Tricia ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorblind Racism; Criminalization of Race; Educational Inequality; Intersectionality; Public Racial Narrative; Social Media; Spatialization of Race; Structural Racism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880353465     PISSN: 1742058X     EISSN: 17420598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1742058X13000234     Document Type: Article

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