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The poet Langston Hughes once suggested years ago that the black American’s search for democracy in the United States was “a dream deferred.” Perhaps we should now add that this dream has been so long delayed, corrupted, and compromised that many black folk question the viability of the entire political project called “American democracy.”
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Marable, M. (2000). Black Radicalism and an Economy of Incarceration. In: James, J. (eds) States of Confinement. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-10929-3_5
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