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- ↑ "It Can Happen Here". New York University Press . Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- 1 2 "Anthropological Witness". Cornell University Press . Retrieved January 7, 2023.
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- ↑ "IAGS". Genocide Scholars. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- ↑ "Textor Prize". American Anthropological Association . Retrieved July 1, 2022.
- ↑ "Alex Hinton Wins Anthropology in the Media Award for Raising Awareness of Genocide and Human Rights". Rutgers University . Retrieved January 8, 2023.
- ↑ "Night of the Khmer Rouge". Paul Robeson Gallery. Retrieved June 24, 2022.
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- ↑ "Colonial Genocide in Indigenous North America". Duke University Press . Retrieved January 17, 2022.
- ↑ Hinton, Devon E.; Hinton, Alexander L., eds. (2014). Genocide and Mass Violence. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9781107706859. ISBN 9781107706859 . Retrieved June 17, 2022.
- ↑ "Man or Monster?". Duke University Press . Retrieved June 24, 2022.
- ↑ Rethinking Peace . Retrieved June 24, 2022.
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- ↑ Hinton, Alexander Laban (2023). Perpetrators. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503630673 . Retrieved January 7, 2023.