Is the “First-Generation Student” Term Useful for Understanding Inequality? The Role of Intersectionality in Illuminating the Implications of an Accepted—Yet Unchallenged—Term
- 1 March 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Review of Research in Education
- Vol. 42 (1), 146-176
- https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732x18759280
Abstract
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