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Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones was Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford from 1960 to 1989, and is the author of The Justice of Zeus, Blood for the Ghosts,and other works.
Gregory D. Squires is professor of sociology and a faculty member in the Urban Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His research has focused on racial inequality and urban development. He has written for a variety of social science journals law reviews and general interest magazines including Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Urban Affairs, Social Problems, Journal of Affordable Housing, and Community Development Law,and The American Prospect.
Molefi Kete Asante is professor of Africology at Temple University. He is the author of forty-five books, including The Afrocentric Idea.
Andrew Sabl is assistant professor of political science at Vanderbilt University and a fellow in Harvard University’s Program on Constitutional Government in 1999–2000.
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Lloyd-Jones, H., Squires, G.D., Asante, M.K. et al. Books in review. Soc 37, 81–96 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912296
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