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She specializes in industrial organization, public finance, and the economics of race. Her most recent articles and essays on the economic status of black Americans appear in The Review of Black Political Economy.
where he is a member of the Black Politics Program Committee. He has been published widely on the subject of Afro-American polities and leadership and is a general editor of the State University of New York Press series on Afro-American studies.
Ronald W. Walters has chaired the Political Science Department at Howard University, the Afro-American Studies Department at Brandeis University, and the Committee on Afro-American Societies and Cultures of the Social Science Research Council. The author of more than seventy publications, he is former director of the Social Science Research Center at Howard University.
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Chachere, B., Smith, R.C. Causes for alarm. Society 24, 22–28 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695819
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