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Majority No More? The Influence of Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Salient National Population Changes on Whites’ Perceptions of Racial Discrimination
Maureen A. Craig, Jennifer A. Richeson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences August 2018, 4 (5) 141-157; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.07
Maureen A. Craig
aAssistant professor of psychology at New York University
Jennifer A. Richeson
bPhilip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and faculty fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University

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Maureen A. Craig, Jennifer A. Richeson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Aug 2018, 4 (5) 141-157; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.07
Majority No More? The Influence of Neighborhood Racial Diversity and Salient National Population Changes on Whites’ Perceptions of Racial Discrimination
Maureen A. Craig, Jennifer A. Richeson
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Aug 2018, 4 (5) 141-157; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.5.07
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