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Robin McDowell is Ph.D. Candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She was a Gerald Gill Fellow at Tufts University Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and is cur- rently a Fellow at the History Design Studio at the Hutchins Center for African American Research.
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