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Kenneth W. Mack is the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University. He is the author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer and co-editor of The New Black: What Has Changed—And What Has Not—With Race in America.
Crusading for black rights, women's equality, and gender non-conformity.
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