"A Black prisoner's crime may or may not have been a political action against the state, but the state's action against him is always political."
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"Black Prisoner, White Law," The Black Scholar, April-May 1971, p. 45, as cited in The Death of White Sociology, p. 171
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Robert Chrisman
Robert Chrisman (May 28, 1937 – March 10, 2013) was a poet, scholar, and founding editor and publisher of The Black Scholar.
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