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Don James McLaughlin
Don James McLaughlin is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania.
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January 29, 2016
Don James McLaughlin
The Anti-Slavery Roots of Today’s “-Phobia” Obsession
Before "homophobia" and "Islamophobia," there was “colorphobia” and “Negrophobia.”
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