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Chapter 3 - Color-Blind Racism

from Part I - Perspectives on Race

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

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Meghan A. Burke
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
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William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 21 - 29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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