Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 442-464

  Vargas, Nicholas ^a   Stainback, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

race; racial classification; racial identity; social identity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ASIAN; AWARENESS; BLACK PERSON; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDENTITY; IMMIGRANT; INTIMACY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84962821226     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613396     Document Type: Article

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