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More than forty years after Brown v. Board of Education put an end to the segregation of the race...

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This volume presents articles by interdisciplinary and international scholars spanning the social...

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This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past...

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Part of a series of interdisciplinary research on law, this title invites research on a range of ...

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In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as s...

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