Introduction: Taking the social construction of race seriously in health disparities research

Mapping "Race": Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-22

  Gómez, Laura E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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