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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? The Missing Kerner Commission Report

Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Malik Chaka Edwards, Cynthia Neal Spence, William A. Darity, Jr., Darrick Hamilton, Jasson Perez
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences September 2018, 4 (6) 20-40; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.02
Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards
aAssociate director of research at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and assistant professor of general internal medicine at Duke University
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Malik Chaka Edwards
bAssociate professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law
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Cynthia Neal Spence
cDirector of the Social Justice Program and associate professor of sociology at Spelman College and director of the UNCF/Mellon Programs
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William A. Darity Jr.
dFounding director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University
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Darrick Hamilton
eProfessor of economics and public and urban policy at the New School in New York
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Jasson Perez
fEconomics student at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an activist fighting police misconduct
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Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Malik Chaka Edwards, Cynthia Neal Spence, William A. Darity, Darrick Hamilton, Jasson Perez
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2018, 4 (6) 20-40; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.02

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Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards, Malik Chaka Edwards, Cynthia Neal Spence, William A. Darity, Darrick Hamilton, Jasson Perez
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences Sep 2018, 4 (6) 20-40; DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.6.02
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    • PROBLEMATIZING BLACK RAGE AND NORMALIZING WHITE RAGE
    • THE MISSING ANALYSIS: WHITE CIVIL UNREST
    • MISSING ANALYSIS: GENDER AND THE KERNER REPORT
    • TASK FORCE ON TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POLICING
    • THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOYNIHAN REPORT AND MY BROTHER’S KEEPER
    • THE CONTINUING INVISIBILITY OF BLACK WOMEN AND GIRLS
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