A Fair Game? Racial Bias and Repeated Interaction between NBA Coaches and Players

Administrative Science Quarterly

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 603-625

  Zhang, Letian ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

contact hypothesis; discrimination; inequality; intergroup contact; racial bias; sports

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032891759     PISSN: 00018392     EISSN: 19303815     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0001839217705375     Document Type: Article

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