The Color Complex
Kathy Russell. Anchor Books, $15 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-385-47161-9
Discrimination among African Americans on the basis of skin color. (Nov.)
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Reviewed on: 10/04/1993
Genre: Nonfiction
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