The psychology of tokenism: Psychosocial realities of faculty of color

Handbook of Racial and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 100-118

  Niemann, Yolanda Flores ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84951733112     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781412976008.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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