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12. What We Got to Say: Black Suburbia, Segregation and Utopia in the Late 1980s.

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13. Follow for Now: The Question of Post–Civil Rights Black Leadership.

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14. The Culture Assassins: Geography, Generation and Gangsta Rap.

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