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The Political Implications of Colorism Are Gendered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2020

Danielle Casarez Lemi
Affiliation:
Southern Methodist University
Nadia E. Brown
Affiliation:
Purdue University

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A Symposium on Power, Discrimination, and Identity
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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