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Christen Smith

Associate professor of African and African diaspora studies and anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Her piece for The Conversation is titled “The fallout of police violence is killing black women like Erica Garner.” Smith is also the author of Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil.

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