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Andrew J. Douglas is a professor of political science at Morehouse College. His latest book, with Jared Loggins, is Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism.
Even as they carve out space for Black scholarship, established universities remain deeply complicit in racial capitalism. We must think beyond them.
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