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Resisting Marginalization: Black Women’s Political Ambition and Agency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 August 2020

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A Symposium on Power, Discrimination, and Identity
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , October 2020 , pp. 697 - 702
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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