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Reading Politically Red as Politically Black: On the Priority of Antiblackness and the Determination of the Crowd

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2025

Sara-Maria Sorentino
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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 140 , Issue 2 , March 2025 , pp. 327 - 333
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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Modern Language Association of America

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