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Class, Not 'Race'
Alterman, Eric | August 17, 2009 issue

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In this article the author comments on the July 2009 incident that resulted in the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, an African American and a professor at Harvard University, by James Crowley, a white Cambridge, Massachusetts, police officer. The central focus of the article is issues of class and race that were raised by the event.

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GATES, Henry Louis; CROWLEY, James; SOCIAL classes; RACIAL profiling in law enforcement; RACE -- Social aspects; CAMBRIDGE (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS
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