Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town: ghetto chameleons

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Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town : ghetto chameleons. / Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz.

New York : Routledge, 2017. 290 p. (Routledge advances in ethnography).

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Harvard

Lindegaard, MR 2017, Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town: ghetto chameleons. Routledge advances in ethnography, Routledge, New York.

APA

Lindegaard, M. R. (2017). Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town: ghetto chameleons. Routledge. Routledge advances in ethnography

Vancouver

Lindegaard MR. Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town: ghetto chameleons. New York: Routledge, 2017. 290 p. (Routledge advances in ethnography).

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Lindegaard, Marie Rosenkrantz. / Surviving gangs, violence and racism in cape town : ghetto chameleons. New York : Routledge, 2017. 290 p. (Routledge advances in ethnography).

Bibtex

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