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- 18
- Issue
- 3
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- 176-206
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Signithia Fordham,
John U. Ogbu
(1986).
Black students' school success: Coping with the ?burden of ?acting white??.
The Urban Review
, 18
(3)
, 176-206.
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01112192
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- 10.1007/bf01112192