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Race, Liberalism, and Affirmative Action (II)

by Jim Sleeper July 1, 1992

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Jim Sleeper is a lecturer in political science at Yale, a former columnist for Newsday and the New York Daily News, and author of The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York. More by Jim Sleeper

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