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Thriving in Our Identity and in the Academy: Latina Epistemology as a Core Resource

Milagros Castillo-Montoya and María Torres-Guzmán
Harvard Educational Review December 2012, 82 (4) 540-558; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.82.4.k483005r768821n5
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