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2018
Volume 101, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402

Abstract

Using critical content analysis and the lens of AsianCrit, this study explores Asian American children’s racial trauma and counter-stories of healing in .

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