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- ↑ Sanchez, Raul; Villanueva, Victor (1995). "Review of Bootstraps: From an American Academic of Color, Victor Villanueva, Jr". JAC. 15 (1): 163–168. JSTOR 20866016.
- ↑ Stanford, Nichole E. (2016-10-14). Good God but You Smart!: Language Prejudice and Upwardly Mobile Cajuns. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 9781607325086.
- ↑ Kirklighter, Cristina (February 2012). Traversing the Democratic Borders of the Essay. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791488119.
- ↑ Young, Morris (2004-03-12). Minor Re/Visions: Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship. SIU Press. ISBN 9780809325542.
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