Policing the Racial Divide. Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation, Paperback - Daanika Gordon

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Daanika GordonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperb...

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The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, now even more relevant in the post-September 11 world.

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