The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century
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Thomas C. Holt
Thomas C. Holt is James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History at the University of Chicago; he has produced a number of works on the people and descendants of the African Diaspora.
Particularly notable among his publications are: The Problem of Freedom: Race, Labor,...
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