Dr. James R. Jones is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Sociology at Rutgers University-Newark. He is also the director of the Center for Politics and Race in America. He is author of The Last Plantation: Racism and Resistance in the Halls of Congress published by Princeton University Press.
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