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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
Jennifer A. Jones
bAssistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame
Andrea Becker
cPhD student in sociology at Vanderbilt University
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