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Editor's Column: Prisons, Activism, and the Academy—a Roundtable with Buzz Alexander, Bell Gale Chevigny, Stephen John Hartnett, Janie Paul, and Judith Tannenbaum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Patricia Yaeger
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 545 - 567
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