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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
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bPhilip R. Allen Professor of Psychology and faculty fellow at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University
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