Contested Terrain: Negotiating Racial Understandings in Public Discourse

Abstract

An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, Massachusetts, March 28–31, 1996. Special thanks to Lelia Lomba De Andrade for her many insightful comments on an earlier draft. Correspondence to author at: Hillyer College, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06119. Internet: [email protected]