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Camp is director of research at the peoples forum, visiting scholar in the center for place, culture and politics at the graduate center of the city university of new york, and codirector of the racial capitalism working group in the center for the study of social difference at columbia university. Phantom racism and the myth of crime and punishment. How liberals built prison america is a 2014 nonfiction book by political scientist naomi murakawa, who is a professor of african american. Stuart scheingolds myth of crime and punishment was a pathsetting theory of redirected fear, arguing that socioeconomic fear of. How liberals built prison america is a 2014 nonfiction book by political scientist naomi murakawa, who is a professor of african american studies at princeton university. Naomi murakawa department of african american studies. Ira katznelson, ruggles professor of political science and history.
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