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Andra Gillespie

Andra Gillespie is Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University and author of The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America.

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An interview with Randall Kennedy.

Andra Gillespie, Randall L. Kennedy

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Who Cares About Race? In his classic book Behind the Mule, Michael Dawson contends that the perceived uniformity of black political behavior and policy preferences is a product of “linked fate,” the...
Andra Gillespie

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