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Adrienne Brown 

Adrienne Brown is an associate professor of English at the University of Chicago. She coedited Race and Real Estate (Oxford University Press, 2016) and is the author of The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). icon

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