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Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas

Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos Juliet Hooker, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, ISBN: 9780190633691

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  1. Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 01267, USA

    Neil Roberts

  2. The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Anne Norton

  3. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, 94132, USA

    James Martel

  4. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Keisha Lindsay

  5. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA

    Inés Valdez

  6. Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, USA

    Juliet Hooker

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Roberts, N., Norton, A., Martel, J. et al. Juxtaposition, Hemispheric Thought, and the Bounds of Political Theory: Juliet Hooker’s Theorizing Race in the Americas. Contemp Polit Theory 18, 604–639 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-019-00345-9

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