What's in a name?: Exploring the employment of ‘mixed race’ as an identification

Ethnicities

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 469-490

  Mahtani, Minelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

categories of identity; mixed race; multiraciality; racialization; women

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996190867     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14687968020020040201     Document Type: Article

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