Interrogating Race: Color, Racial Categories, and Class Across the Americas

American Behavioral Scientist

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 538-555

  Bailey, Stanley R ^a   Fialho, Fabrício M ^b   Penner, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Latin America; race; racial inequality; skin color; social origin; United States

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; RACE; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STRATIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962890429     PISSN: 00027642     EISSN: 15523381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613400     Document Type: Article

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