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ERS ANNUAL LECTURE 2011

The invisible weight of whiteness: the racial grammar of everyday life in contemporary America

Pages 173-194 | Received 11 Jul 2011, Accepted 09 Aug 2011, Published online: 29 Sep 2011

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