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Racism and Inequality in Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

James R. Jones*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University–Newark, USA

Abstract

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Type
Research on Race and Ethnicity in Legislative Studies
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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