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During the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s Narendra Modi government has been successful in scapegoating, discriminating against and marginalizing minorities, putting lives at greater risk.
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“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
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