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Brent Cebul is assistant professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. His first book, Illusions of Progress: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century, will be published by Penn Press.
Policing is not the only kind of state violence. In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.
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