Navigating the color complex: How multiracial individuals narrate the elements of appearance and dynamics of color in twenty-first-Century America

The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 257-272

  McDonough, Sara ^a   Brunsma, David L ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84935046258     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4_17     Document Type: Chapter

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