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xi Contributors Fredrick C. Harris  is professor of political science and director for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. Robert C. Lieberman  is professor of political science and provost at The Johns Hopkins University. Anthony S. Chenis associate professor of sociology and political science at Northwestern University, where he is also faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. Richard P. Eibachis assistant professor in social psychology at the University of Waterloo. Devin Fergusis associate professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University and senior fellow at Demos. Philip Atiba Goffis assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and executive director of research for the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity. Rodney E. Herois professor in the Department of Political Science andis the Haas Chair in Diversity and Democracy at the University of California , Berkeley. Desmond Kingis Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford. Naa Oyo A. Kwateis associate professor in the departments of human ecology and Africana studies at Rutgers University. xii    Contributors Morris E. Levyis Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Devah Pageris professor of sociology and public affairs and codirector of the Joint Degree Program in Social Policy at Princeton University. Valerie Purdie-Vaughnsis assistant professor in social psychology at Columbia University and research fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Research on African-American Studies (IRAAS). Benjamin Radcliffis professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Lisa M. Stulbergis associate professor of sociology of education and director of the Sociology of Education Program at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Dorian T. Warren is associate professor of political science and public affairs and codirector of the Program on Labor Law & Policy at Columbia University. Vesla M. Weaveris assistant professor of African American studies and political science and faculty affiliate of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies at Yale University. ...

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