Koritha Mitchell

Ohio State University

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Professor of English at Ohio State University; literary historian, cultural critic and author of Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890 - 1930

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The election of America's first black President led to predictions that the US was on its way to becoming "post-racial," led by the "millennial generation."

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