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Jennifer L. Hochschild

Jennifer L. 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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A New Progressive Generation I share Michael Dawson’s fury and frustration over rising economic inequality in the United States (and elsewhere) and over persistent racial discrimination. I also agree that robust political...
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