Brute Force and Plunder

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Robin D. G. Kelley

Robin D. G. Kelley is Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair of U.S. History at UCLA and a contributing editor at Boston Review. His many books include Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination and Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature, and Feminism in Our Time.