Looking for “threats” in all the wrong places: A critique of the current use of race as a contextual effect in political science

Politics and Policy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 637-649

  McClerking, Harwood K ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84937344177     PISSN: 15555623     EISSN: 17471346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-1346.2001.tb00608.x     Document Type: Article

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