'It's not written on their skin like it is ours': Greek letter organizations in the age of the multicultural imperative

Ethnicities

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 519-543

  Hunter, Joanna S ^a   Hughey, Matthew W ^b  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Color blindness; Greek letter organizations; multiculturalism; racial identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884494705     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796812471127     Document Type: Article

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