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Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
- M. Francis
- Political Science
- 21 April 2014
1. Rethinking civil rights and American political development 2. The birth of the NAACP, mob violence, and the challenge of public opinion 3. The unsteady march into the Oval Office 4. Anti-lynching… Expand
Black politics and the neoliberal racial order
- M. Dawson, M. Francis
- Sociology
- 2016
We are at a critical moment in the history of race in the United States. The years 2013–15 mark the fiftieth anniversaries of some of the most important milestones in the civil rights movement. In… Expand
The Price of Civil Rights: Black Lives, White Funding, and Movement Capture
- M. Francis
- Sociology
- 1 March 2019
The Strange Fruit of American Political Development
- M. Francis
- Political Science
- 2 January 2018
ABSTRACT What is the relationship between black social movements, state violence, and political development in the United States? Today, this question is especially important given the staggering… Expand
The Revolution Will Be Televised: Youth, Political Protest, and Hip Hop From The U.S. To Egypt --CANCELLED
- M. Francis
- Political Science
- 19 July 2014
Stereospecific Chemical Sensors for Amino Acids and Carbohydrates
- C. Paavola, M. Kabir, Amanda P. Crochet, M. Francis
- Chemistry
- 2010
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. By Bruce Ackerman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 432 pp. $35.00 hardcover.: Book Reviews
- M. Francis
- Sociology
- 1 September 2016
We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution. By Bruce Ackerman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014. 432 pp. $35.00 hardcover.Bruce Ackerman has produced a stunning achievement with his latest… Expand
The Battle for the Hearts and Minds of America
- M. Francis
- Sociology
- 14 March 2011
This essay traces a tradition in civil rights that begins with the NAACP's media campaign to fight unjust racial violence between 1909 and 1925, instead of with the education desegregation litigation… Expand
Statebuilding from the Margins: Between Reconstruction and the New Deal. Edited by Carol Nackenoff and Julie Novkov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 320p. $59.95.
- M. Francis
- Sociology
- 1 June 2015
Movement Capture or Movement Strategy? A Critical Race History Exchange on the Beginnings of Brown v. Board
- M. Francis, J. Witt
- Political Science
- 15 June 2020
In 2019, Megan Ming Francis published a path-breaking article challenging the conventional wisdom in the field on a core piece of civil rights history: the role of a philanthropic foundation called… Expand