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Book Title: Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival In Post-Civil Rights America
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.1in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Matthew Frye Jacobson
Publication Name: Roots Too : White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
Format: Perfect
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 26.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 496 Pages
