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REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE

More Than Just Social Structure: The Poverty of Cultur(al) Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Mark Gould*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Haverford College
*
Mark Gould, Department of Sociology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. E-mail: mgould@haverford.edu

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State of the Discourse
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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