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Race, State, and Power in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Sat, September 2, 4:00 to 5:30pm PDT (4:00 to 5:30pm PDT), LACC, 408ASession Submission Type: Full Paper Panel
Session Description
This panel brings together a range of current work on the relationship among race, state building, power, and democracy. It spans a broad sweep of American history to shine analytical light on contemporary challenges, and it also places US politics in comparative perspective to illuminate how racial politics constitutes state power in a variety of contexts.
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Individual Presentations
Prison Investigations as Civil Rights Enforcement after Emancipation - Megan Ming Francis, University of Washington
Incomplete Democratization: Black Political Power and Municipal Institutions - Daniel F. Ziblatt, Harvard University; Robert Mickey, University of Michigan; Jake M Grumbach, UC Berkeley
The American Civil Rights State: Federal Power and the Pursuit of Racial Justice - Robert C. Lieberman, Johns Hopkins University; Desmond King, University of Oxford