Off white: colour-blind ideology at the margins of whiteness

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 2281-2302

  Vargas, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

colour blind ideology; group threat; identity threat; racial contestation; racial misclassification; whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919414886     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.821147     Document Type: Article

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