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Book Title: Talking To Strangers: Anxieties Of Citizenship Since Brown V...
Number of Pages: 286 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Talking to Strangers : Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown V. Board of Education
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2006
Subject: Political Process / General, Cultural Heritage, History & Theory, General, Social Psychology
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 11.3 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Author: Danielle Allen
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Perfect
