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Race and the Bully Pulpit: The U.S. Presidency and the Quest of Equality in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 October 2021

Rodney Hero
Affiliation:
Political Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Alvin B. Tillery*
Affiliation:
Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association

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