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Whither Whiteness? The Racial Logics of the Kerner Report and Modern White Space

Matthew W. Hughey
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 73-98; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.04
Matthew W. Hughey
aAssociate professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut and a research associate in critical studies in higher education transformation at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa
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