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The Politics of Race and Science: Conservative Colorblindness and the Limits of Liberal Critique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2015

Dorothy E. Roberts
Dorothy E. Roberts*
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Law School, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
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*Corresponding author: Professor Dorothy E. Roberts, University of Pennsylvania School of Law, 3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail: dorothyroberts@law.upenn.edu
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Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Spring 2015 , pp. 199 - 211
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Copyright © Hutchins Center for African and African American Research 2015 

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