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We need to situate the conversation about race, gender, and affirmative action in a wider account of democratic opportunity.
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Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
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Lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom.
Professor of American History at UCLA
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