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n current debates about race and inequality in the United States, we tend to forget a key institution: the family.
Robin A. Lenhardt’s research focuses critical attention on the role family law systems and structures have long played in shaping racial subordination and disadvantage in the United States. Lenhardt thus provides invaluable insights into the kinds of solutions that can be deployed to interrupt processes that “lock” families of color and their members into persistent inequality.
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