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Segregated Spaces and Separated Races: The Relationship Between State-Sanctioned Violence, Place, and Black Identity

Tia Sherèe Gaynor, Seong C. Kang, Brian N. Williams
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2021, 7 (1) 50-66; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2021.7.1.04
Tia Sherèe Gaynor
aAssistant professor of political science and founding director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation at the University of Cincinnati, United States
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Seong C. Kang
bAssistant professor at the Department of Government at New Mexico State University, United States
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cAssociate professor of public policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, United States
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