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Book Cover: How to mentor anyone in academia
The Art of Mentorship
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football
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Is It Racist? Is It Sexist?
Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound
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Making Financial Globalization
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Republicanism and the Future of Democracy
"How We Write Now" book cover with illustration of Black woman sitting at a desk
How We Write Now: Living with Black Feminist Theory
The Fundamental Voter cover
The Fundamental Voter: American Electoral Democracy, 1952-2020
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Agency and Cognitive Development
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Golden Years: How Americans Invented and Reinvented Old Age
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Race Traffic: Antislavery and the Origins of White Victimhood
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Primate Cognition: Volume 1 2nd Edition
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Searching for Dr. Harris: The Life and Times of a Remarkable African American Physician
Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military
Thanks for Your Service: The Causes and Consequences of Public Confidence in the US Military
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Being Dead Otherwise
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