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Clarifying the Social Roots of the Disproportionate Classification of Racial Minorities and Males with Learning Disabilities

Dara ShifrerDepartment of Sociology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 384-406 | Published online: 27 Jul 2018

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