Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
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Race in Latin America
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عنوان ژورنال: Estudios Sociológicos de El Colegio de México
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0185-4186
DOI: 10.24201/es.2016v34n100.1406