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Dog Whistle Polit...

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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

by Ian F. Haney-López

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Tales from the Haunted South: Dark Tourism and Memories of Slavery from the Civil War Era (The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era)

by Tiya Miles (Goodreads Author)

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by Min Jin Lee

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