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Race, Crime, and Policing in the Jim Crow South
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Brandon T. Jett
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In this groundbreaking work, Professor Brandon T. Jett unearths how police departments evolved with the urbanization of the Jim Crow South, to target African Americans through a variety of mechanisms of …
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Sea Change
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Latin American Studies
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Brotherhood to Nationhood
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