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‘You make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands!’: campus culture, Black misandric microaggressions, and racial battle fatigue

William A. SmithEducation, Culture, & Society and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jalil Bishop MustaffaUCLA Graduate School of Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Chantal M. JonesUCLA Graduate School of Education, Higher Education and Organizational Change Program, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Tommy J. CurryDepartment of Philosophy, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA
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Walter R. AllenGraduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pages 1189-1209 | Received 29 Jul 2015, Accepted 14 Jul 2016, Published online: 14 Sep 2016

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