Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How racial discrimination shapes religious convictions

Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-278

  Shelton, Jason E ^a   Emerson, Michael O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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