When questions do not yield answers: Foreclosures of racial knowledge production

Sociology Compass

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1028-1037

  Henricks, Kasey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

epistemology; racism; reflexivity; sociology of knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994246761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17519020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/soc4.12414     Document Type: Article

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