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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.
Coretta Scott King saw economic precarity as not just a side effect of racial subjugation, but as central to its functioning.
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