Where my girls at? Black girls and the construction of the sexual

All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 141-153

  Weekes, Debbie ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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