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Seaton, E.K., Yip, T., Douglass, S. (2011). Racial and Ethnic Discrimination. In: Levesque, R.J.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1695-2_227
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