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Jennifer Hochschild

Jennifer Hochschild is H.L. Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America.

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An Anachronistic Reading Historians warn us not to interpret or judge the past through contemporary eyes. They recognize that the past is a foreign country, and that some day in the future...
Jennifer Hochschild
Owen Fiss writes with elegance, moral urgency, and conceptual clarity. I agree with his premise–that wealthier Americans owe poor residents of poor ghettos a chance to pursue the American dream, whether because...
Jennifer Hochschild

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