Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship
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Irene Latham. (2020). Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Unabridged Lerner Publishing Group.

Irene Latham. 2020. Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Lerner Publishing Group.

Irene Latham, Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.

Irene Latham. Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Unabridged Lerner Publishing Group, 2020.

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