Race wrestling: Struggling strategically with race in educational practice and research

Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theories, Methods, and Results

Volumn 9780203837740, Issue , 2012, Pages 83-126

  Pollock, Mica ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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