Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey, and author of Fighting in the Streets: Ethnic Succession and Urban Unrest in 20th Century America and the forthcoming Summer of Rage: Newark and Detroit in the Summer of 1967
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