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REVISITING THE DEBATE ON RACE AND CULTURE

More Than Just Social Structure: The Poverty of Cultur(al) Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2011

Mark Gould
Mark Gould*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Haverford College
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Mark Gould, Department of Sociology, Haverford College, Haverford, PA 19041. E-mail: mgould@haverford.edu
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , Fall 2011 , pp. 476 - 488
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Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2011

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