Measuring Racial Progress in America: The Tangled Path

The Obamas and a (Post) Racial America?

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hughey, Matthew W ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Discourse; Education; Housing; Incarceration; Post racial; Progress; Wealth; White supremacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921764198     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199735204.003.0001     Document Type: Chapter

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