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David Stein is a lecturer in African American Studies and History at UCLA. His first book, Fearing Inflation, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State, 1929–1986, is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press.
She saw economic precarity not just as a side effect of racial subjugation, but central to its functioning.
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