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The Racialization of Latino Immigrants in New Destinations: Criminality, Ascription, and Countermobilization

Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, Andrea Becker
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 118-140; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.06
Hana E. Brown
aAssociate professor of sociology at Wake Forest University
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Jennifer A. Jones
bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame
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cPhD student in sociology at Vanderbilt University
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Hana E. Brown, Jennifer A. Jones, Andrea Becker
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