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Except where otherwise noted below, The Making of Race: Topics in Race and Racism in the United States is openly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). The license applies to the original materials created for this project: unit pages, case studies, module overviews, study guides, sample assignments, and the introductory and companion pages.
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Zhang, Minglei (Hart). The Making of Race: Topics in Race and Racism in the United States. New York: Manifold @CUNY, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21386222
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