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African American Review, Spring, 1999 by Jeffrey A. Brown
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Jeffrey A. Brown, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University. Professor Brown would like to thank Craig Werner and Ivan Kalmar for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.
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